Quotes about yourself

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“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”

“It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.”

“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are…
… We must always take risks. That is our destiny…”

“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take 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.”

“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him."”

“Andrea: "…. I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle.”
Kate: “He isn’t a poodle. He’s a Doberman mix."
Andrea: “Aha. Keep telling yourself that.”

“Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time”

“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”

“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”

“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”

“Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?”

“Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?

… No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.”

“Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”

“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.”

“The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.”

“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”

“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”

“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”

“I'm not myself.' '… You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.”

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.”

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

“As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.”

“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.”

“investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”

“Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.”

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

“If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropiate port you find yourself docked.”

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”

“There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember thatmight be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.”

“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”

“Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.”

“you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.”

“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”

“Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable. Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)”

“Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.”

“Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself.”

“What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”

“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

“You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.”

“If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.”

“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”

“No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.”

“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.”

“He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.”

“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”

“you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.”

“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“At times 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.”

“Three things no one has ever said about me:

You make it look so easy.

You are very mysterious.

You need to take yourself more seriously.”

“Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself… know what you want.”

“As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.”

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

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel."
(Something Borrowed)”

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

“It was so easy to disown what you couldn’t recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling”

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”

“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”

“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

“That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.”

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”

“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”

“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei”

“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does… And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”

“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.”

“its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself”

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

“You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)”

“We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?”

“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”

“Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.”

“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”

“beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet”