Yourself Quotes

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Confine yourself to the present.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

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.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

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.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

Always educate yourself.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.

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.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.