Here we have the best Yourself Quotes from famous authors such as Molly Tarlov, Drew Barrymore, Bruce Lee, J. Irwin Miller, Ross Mathews. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Regrets are something you can’t really have as an actor, because ultimately you’ll end up destroying yourself… there’s a lot of disappointment in this business.
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
If there’s any definition to being perfect, you’re perfect at being yourself.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don’t genuinely believe in yourself, it’s useless.
I really believe in the ‘Glow’ and live my life that way. It’s about being positive inside and out and being the best version of yourself possible.
I think it’s important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and… everybody’s hot.
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
Zumba is a great dance-cardio option that’s an immersive experience for participants and is not only effective but allows you to express yourself while getting in shape.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.
There’s no one to stop you but yourself.
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Be yourself. Create your own unique style.
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.
You can never really live anyone else‘s life, not even your child‘s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
As a driver, you’ve always got to believe in your heart that you’ve got what it takes to win it. You’ve always got to believe in yourself. You’ve always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You’ve always got to believe in the positives.
The more you believe in yourself, the faster you’re going to get.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
You really don’t have to be rich to be sosy. It’s just really a mentality and how you want to carry yourself. You enjoy life.
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Being confident is the key to life. Don’t be afraid to be you! I’m super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I’m OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.
When you’re uncomfortable, that’s when you learn something new about yourself.
Take your job seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.
No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
If no one else is going to hype you up, you have to do it yourself.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it’s always going to make you remember who you are.
It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
Sometimes it’s like watching a train wreck. You’re uncomfortable, but you just can’t help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Having fun is definitely how you’re going to keep yourself loose, and be at your best.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.
Collaboration is important not just because it’s a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It’s not the outside world – it’s your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world – you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Believe in yourself, be persistent, and don’t let anyone break your confidence.
Never stop, never give up, never stop giving yourself the self-confidence you need to be a champion.
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what’s in your way.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There’s no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.
True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that’s all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
You can’t get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.
The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people’s expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That’s how your career takes off – it’s just consistency and time.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
I’ve had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people – whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
Some people like you, some people don’t. In the end you just have to be yourself.
If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
Bet on yourself and be… more than.
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you’re not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
It’s not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it’s that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you’re pushing yourself to do it.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
When you’re challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you’re willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you’re willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you’re almost fearless.
When you’re doing good, everybody praises you. But when everything’s all gone, a lot of people are nowhere to be found. So you always just believe in yourself, do it yourself and you won’t be let down.
People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
Don’t let others define you. You define yourself.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Surround yourself with positive people and you’ll be a positive person.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God’s borne out on you.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Being yourself is very sexy, you know?
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.
When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Don’t hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you’re different than anyone else.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself – that is the best combination.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
You can’t escape from yourself, can you?
You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!
You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you’ve got to squeeze your buns. That’s my formula.
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You’ve just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.
You’re never going to be bulletproof, but if you’re feeding yourself good food and making sure you’re eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It’s different than bringing something in by yourself.
I’m a big believer that you surround yourself with good people which brings the best out of you.
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Nobody’s perfect, so don’t go out there and try to act like you got to live a perfect life. Be yourself, and be happy with it.
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
Celebrate yourself… and stay positive!
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
When you’re able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.
The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
You should realize that there is only one version of yourself in the world and that your flaws make you beautiful.
I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing all the time.
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Be yourself and set the trend. Don’t follow.
I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.
Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself – that’s hot.
I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.
It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
Be beautiful, be stylish, and love yourself.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.
The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.
Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can’t necessarily get any other way.
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that’s love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
If someone else isn’t making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
Money begets money. If you don’t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that’s generating income for yourself.
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
When things are bad, it’s the best time to reinvent yourself.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.
If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up.
Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
You try to be yourself, do only what you’ve always done and like to do, and right away, you’re tagged as an oddball.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.
You cheat yourself when you don’t do what it is you’re supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
You can’t please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn’t perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don’t let anyone steal your joy.
To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
Loving yourself is a journey, not a destination.
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.
You change the world by being yourself.
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.
Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can’t be affected by what people are saying.
You are who you surround yourself with. I know that’s such a cliche quote, but it’s true.
Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
Just enjoy every moment – don’t stress. Just be yourself.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.
If you think you can do better, then do better. Don’t compete with anyone; just yourself.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
The best route is to stay humble and stay true to yourself.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
You discover yourself through the research of your work.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
Being transgender isn’t a medical transition. It’s a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You don’t have to live up to anyone else’s standards, you don’t have to look like anyone else, you don’t have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
If you want to wear something and you feel confident, you are going to rock it. That’s what I love about fashion: it’s your choice and your chance to express yourself.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I love acting because it’s a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man’s revenge.
Where you come from now is much less important than where you’re going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you – magic all around you – no matter what situation you’re in.
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you.
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Everything you want to accomplish is already within yourself so when you start to roll in self-doubt and think negative thoughts then you’ll fall off. So keep visualising and keep knowing what you’re destined for, it’ll come to you.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
