Quotes about yourself
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“Remember that every man is a variation of yourself”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

“God is Good… Jesus is Lord
Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus.. O-Others.. Y-Yourself”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year

God

“Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Search, Change

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Love, Art

“No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Life, Happiness, Dance

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: Sayings of Confucius

Attitude

“I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.”

Shannon Hale River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Motivational, Wise

“Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

Game, Boy, Learning

“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: VALIS

Idea

“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.”

Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor

Fools, Feeling, For Friend

“Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.”

Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner

Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Smile

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

Love

“If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

Books, Way, Wolf

“Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Learning

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Love

“You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

Don DeLillo Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

Harlan Coben book Shelter

Source: Shelter

Fools, Thinking, Forgetting

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

Travel

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Sweet Revenge

Love

“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and the Goblin

Source: The Princess and the Goblin

People

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”

Hilari Bell book Navohar

Source: Navohar

People, Fools, Time

“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Love

“The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.”

Martin Cruz Smith (1942) American writer

Allan Pease book The Definitive Book of Body Language

Source: The Definitive Book of Body Language

Feeling

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

Dreams, Loneliness, Flying

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

Paul Theroux book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Source: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Life, People, Travel, Dependency

“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Love, Happiness, Heart

“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Beauty, Perfection

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Personality

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer

Source: Fuzzies and Other People

Night

“Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Support

“If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Way, Cry

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Way, Thinking

“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Icehenge

Source: Icehenge

Dreams, Thinking, Sleep

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

http://uzomediangr.com/tag/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-quotes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Travel, Home, Search, Thinking

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Training

“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“In order to love people usefully you need to be focused on them and not yourself.”

Richard Templar (1950–2006) selfhelp author

Love, People

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Way, Home, Thinking

“View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, “What was I thinking,” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, “What was I learning?”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

Source: Bounce Back Book

Life, Question, Thinking, Learning

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

God

“And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

Life, Family, Parting, Cheating

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Feeling, Hell, Help, Dead

“Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Help

“The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Way, Understanding

“But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.
-Aphrodite”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Beauty, Feeling, Nature, Change

“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Home, Light, Perfection

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

Ian Fleming book Casino Royale

Source: Casino Royale (1953), Ch. 20 : The Nature Of Evil
Context: "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles."
He laughed. "But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine."

Fight

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Question, Teachers

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 10

“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Fight

“Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy

"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Variant: So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on."
"Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.
Source: School's Out—Forever

Home, Game, Change

“That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Singing

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Feeling, Hurtful

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Hope, Forgiveness, Time, Past

“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

Maxim 55, p. 259
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variant: You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Art, Joy, Training

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Perfection, Motivational, Happy

“The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Marriage, Happiness, Problem, Learning

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

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

Source: Pearls of Wisdom

Thinking

“Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

Universe

“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

People

“Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.

Love

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Love, People, Forgiveness