#ourselve

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#better #excel #get #greatest #i

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ↗

— Mark Twain

#concealing #consists #good #good breeding #how

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#aim #barely #best #did #done

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#black #called #christian #claim #dear

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

#anger #begun #ceased #controversy #feel

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#find #finding #only #our #ourselves

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#apart #around #because #cheap #could

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously. ↗

— Drew Carey

#helps #never #never take #our #ourselves

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#expect #forever #government #level #ourselves