#ourselves

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#bankrupt #ourselves #search #security #vain

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #constant #deeper #evasion #feelings

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#committed #germany #iraq #ourselves #send

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ↗

— George Foreman

#called #houston #i #kid #last

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #farther #gone #got #influence

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#always #cruelty #others #ourselves #towards

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America.To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #aside #best #bring #brothers

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances. ↗

— Virgil

#circumstances #persevere #preserve #yourselves

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#hard #how #just #ourselves #surprising

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#come #great #gymnasium #make #ourselves