“Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.”
Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows
Source: Son of the Shadows
Quotes about yourself page 17
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Source: Handle with Care
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: For the Roses
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: The Active Side of Infinity
“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?”
You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: My Fair Godmother
“Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”
Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Quoted in A Living Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects (2000) by John Rattenbury
Context: Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”
Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer
Source: Nobody Does it Better
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”
Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Willful Creatures
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
Chelsea Handler Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
Source: Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
Darren Shan (1972) Irish writer of English-language fiction under pen name, real name Darren O'Shaughnessy
Source: Zom-B Underground
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”
Kamila Shamsie book Burnt Shadows
Source: Burnt Shadows
“Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) writer and painter
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Uselessness
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
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
“I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.”
Tana French book The Likeness
Source: The Likeness
“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood
Source: Wise Blood
“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
Anna Wintour (1949) English editor-in-chief of American Vogue
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Uselessness
“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer
Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
Glen Duncan (1965) British writer
Source: The Last Werewolf
“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”
Gordon Korman (1963) Canadian American children's writer
“beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher