“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

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

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

Immanuel Kant book Critique of Practical Reason

“When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.”

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter

“We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“We can’t make the same mistake again,” Aïda said, “of fooling ourselves. Believing in shit that isn’t real.”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

“We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.”

Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Canadian writer and mystic

““We must become better and make ourselves present”

Aldo Capitini (1899–1968) Italian philosopher and political activist