#elves

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#ourselves #shouts #throng #triumph

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#bad thing #be nice #before #diversity #drowning

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#came #inspiration #most #themselves #word

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#always #approval #children #continue #expect

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. ↗

— Henry Ford

#far #giving #helping #men #mere

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#attach #cannot #great #ourselves #something

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together. ↗

— Michael Davis

#business #difficult #establish #freedom #get

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ↗

— Judy Davis

#dramatic #god #got #ideas #men

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside. ↗

— Mary Decker

#care #doing #i #i love #lot

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#against #merely #themselves #you