Home / Topics / Protecting Ourselves Quotes

Protecting Ourselves Quotes

Browse 13 quotes about Protecting Ourselves.

Protecting Ourselves Quotes

“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Ifs Enemy Our Lives Violence Method Plot Robbers Protecting Ourselves

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.”

Thinking May Self Creative Alive Failing Succeed Protect Impulse Barriers Authentic Self Burying Protecting Ourselves

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.”

Culture Approach Happenings Essence Impact Various Devices Civilized Emergencies Institute Contingency Protecting Ourselves

Author:Dale Jamieson

“And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.”

Thinking Enough Struggle Protecting Ourselves

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.”

People Ideas Feelings Forget Minutes Ten Lame Protecting Ourselves

Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.”

People Thinking Sometimes Hurt Protecting Ourselves

Book:Sprout

Source: Sprout

“You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.”

Known Example Promise Setting Settings Expenses Substitutes Setting An Example Protecting Ourselves

Author:Fred Thompson

“Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.”

“The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.”

Self Faces Style Commitment Protection Ugliness Loving Others Self Protection Protecting Ourselves

Author:Larry Crabb

“Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.”

Want Mean States Political Crime Protect Gun Logic Protection Gun Control Protecting Ourselves

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.”

Loss Our Lives Happened Protecting Ourselves

Author:Geneen Roth