#ourselve

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#create #exist #fail #failure #i

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ↗

— Albert Pike

#alone #dies #done #immortal #others

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eternity #literature #literature-quotes #long-ago

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #geniuses #literature #literature-quotes #ourselves

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? ↗

— Boyle Roche

#done #ever #our #ourselves #out

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#beliefs #companionship #filled #find #formation

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#amateur #bit #charm #first #involve

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#debate #decision #family #i #insert

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#friends #interpret #our #ourselves #take

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#difficult #first #honest #improve #lives