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Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
— Ann Curry
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
— George Sand
There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.
— Walter Scott
I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.
— Marsha Thomason
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
— Michael Nichols
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better of ourselves
— Chuck Palahniuk
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
— Matthieu Ricard
Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
— Otto Von Bismarck
The only reason the field continues to grow is because of increasing demand. The more we try to make ourselves feel better, the worse we seem to feel.
— Simon Sinek
Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
— Pema Chodron
We advise others better than ourselves.
— Norm MacDonald
We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.
— Criss Jami
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
— Helen Keller
It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
— Hermann Hesse
We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.
— Peter Gavin Hall
We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
— Sarah McLachlan
And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God ... must it be sane?
— Lucien LaCroix
I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
— Ann Bancroft
We had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.
— Deepak Chopra
Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe if we all force ourselves to act like we're okay even if we're not, eventually things will get better.
— Nina LaCour
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Start Change Ourselves to Better and Then the World
— Jan Jansen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
— Orison Swett Marden
Everyone wants the sun let shine, and the neighbor's grass is always greener, so it is better to mow it ourselves.
— Jan Jansen
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
— Wilson Chebet
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
— J.K. Rowling
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
— Alastair Reynolds
When we inconvenience ourselves to make someone's day more enjoyable, we not only give them hope; we also become better people.
— Jamie Larbi
Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?
— David Foster Wallace
The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.
— Alan Beattie
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
— Melinda Gates
We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles.
— Alexandria Ruffian
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
— Philip Sidney
We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied.
— George Harrison
Start to Better Ourselves and Then the Global.
— Jan Jansen
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
— Odetta
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
— Julian Baggini
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
— Wendell Berry
In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
— Pras Michel
We all have issues. Human beings are flawed, and all we can hope for is to work toward making ourselves better. Not perfect, just better.
— L. H. Cosway
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
— Richard Bach
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
— Judith Viorst
Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.
— Karen S. Shelton
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We need not forgive ourselves," he (Augustus) said. "It has been a marriage. It has been better than most.
— John Williams
Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about ourselves and our purpose in life.
— Auliq Ice
Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn't make it better.
— Shannon A. Thompson
Let's love ourselves, then we can't fail,
To make a better situation.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow,
All we need is dedication! — Lauryn Hill
To make a better situation.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow,
All we need is dedication! — Lauryn Hill
Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.
— Tariq Ramadan
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
— Edmund Burke
Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?
— Marty Stuart
We can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.
— Faiz Triumph
In fact, we take much better care of our smartphones than ourselves.
— Arianna Huffington
There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves
— Darius Bolton
I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.
— Jane Austen
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
— James Hollis
I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
— Zach Braff
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.
— C.S. Lewis
When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
— Elizabeth George
A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.
— Nicholas Sparks
By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better
— Monty Don
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.
— Orison Swett Marden
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
— Orison Swett Marden
When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.
— Erwin McManus
The better I know you, the more I will dislike you, and the more you will dislike me. So let us keep to ourselves.
— Katherine Boo
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
— Karl Popper
What I do think is that we have to take what happens and learn from it and make ourselves a better person because of it.
— Lindsay Paige
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
— Beth Simone Noveck
Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
— Nouman Ali Khan
If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.
— Auliq Ice
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.
— Sunday Adelaja
Becoming is better than being. Perfectionism doesn't exist. We need to stretch ourselves and continue learning.
— Iben Dissing Sandahl
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
— Pema Chodron
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
— Jim Crace
When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves. — Aletheia Luna
care of ourselves. — Aletheia Luna
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
— George Singleton
Our prayers must be in accordance with [God's] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.
— Billy Graham
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
— George Eliot
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
— Dainin Katagiri
Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.
— Nick Vujicic
It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants
— David Orr
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
— Sarah Gadon
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it
— Arianna Huffington