#selves

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#endurance #especially #fully #level #never

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#fight #how #i #just #learned

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#close #dangerously #everything #find #nothing

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#our #ourselves #power #true #true knowledge

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#desire #educated #educating #entirely #ever

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#describe #others #see #tact #themselves

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#children #each #fight #marriages #national

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#independence #more #only #ourselves #possession

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#guides #manners #morals #others #our