Quotes about yourself

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

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

“Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”

“Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.”

“The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

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

“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

“Accept no one’s definition of you, define yourself.”

“My philosophy was very much to embrace yourself and love what you are, instead of making you something you're not. Refine what you already have - don't change it at its core. That's always been my whole ethos.”

“How can such opposing states exist in harmony together? There is only one way: by surrendering yourself. Because the act of surrender means: ‘I trust you.’”

“Spend your time doing things you love, surround yourself with the right people and constantly explore new things.”

“Believe in yourself and you will bounce back.”

“Don't demand so much from yourself early in the game. I was 27 years old before I started tweeting actively.”

“Either you leave your comfort zone to learn more, reinvent yourself and win or you will become invisible in a busy marketplace.”

“I believe a key part of being successful in our industry is constantly reinventing yourself.”

“If you want the whole business world to come to you, you must establish yourself as an influencer in your field.”

“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.”

“When you don’t love yourself, you become cynical(bitter) and negative towards life.”

“To be yourself in all respects is the truest form of respect towards anyone.”

“Censorship has an advantage of making you express yourself in very inventive ways and to think in symbols…those are the only weapons you have against censorship. It also helps by filling your desk drawers with mountains of rejected scripts you can use later in life, if you’re as lucky as I am.”

“You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!”

“Apply yourself fully to the introspection offered here. It is good for all seekers... This self-inquiry is your internal work. Internal work – eternal satisfaction. Internal work revealing timeless Self.”

“It is not for us that we exhort you to learn, but for yourself, because ignorance is an inability, a real disaster, because social positions and protection are no longer there as before, there is a ground for malice and even hatred.”

“One of the ironies in social climbing is that if you are successful, your children will ultimately belong to a different class from yours. There is something sad in that this was your ambition, yet if you achieve it, you have in a sense alienated yourself from your own children.”

“Sometimes life drives you to a place… the road allows you to rediscover yourself.”

“One thing great journalists and artists have in common is a desire to be surprised, to find yourself with way more than you bargained for when you began an inquiry with little more than a sense of intuition.”

“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”

“In this world that hides injustice, selfishness, hatred, falseness and appearance;  you, impose on yourself to be a good person.”

“Even if you are thousand people in this hall, I am talking to you. When I say you, I mean Y O U. There is a thread running with each of you; so don’t ever apply what I am saying to others; you will simply miss the whole thing yourself.”

“Let yourself be attracted by a loyal person, you will also have the rare opportunity to fall in love with its value.”

“Don’t judge others who disagree with your views too harshly. You might just find yourself holding those same views a few years or decades down the line.”

“I used to be really, really shy, which is never a good thing because you never speak up for yourself. Now I don't stop talking! But in terms of being recognised, it doesn't really happen that often. I get the odd person coming up and saying they love the films.”

“I wouldn’t claim to have mastered my craft, part of the fun is that you are continually learning and reinventing yourself.”

“It's a survival thing, making yourself a small target.”

“Be a light unto yourself.”

“If you know anything about Buddhism, you will know that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already. Buddhism is fundamentally about being in touch with your own deepest nature and letting it flow out of you unimpeded.”

“A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation—to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”

“Push yourself beyond when you think you are done with what you have to say. […] It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.”

“You are like a star who's twinkling all the time at the night. When you light up yourself it show your happiness and when you're not it's look like you're sad. It's depends on you want to want be in your life glowing star who's spread happiness or dim star who's spread sadness. If i were a star I'll spreads happiness all around and when someone had a wish to me I'll fall down for their wish come true.”

“If you wanted to get yourself killed, there was no better way than to think you knew all the tricks. It took experience to make you realize that the universe could always pull another one out of the bag and throw it at you.”

“The main thing is to remain yourself, and this is impossible for a professional actor. Although it is difficult to think ahead. It seems to me that cinema and music, complementing each other, can coexist in my life.”

“Betraying who you love is like betraying yourself!”

“Remember that the sun doesn’t belong more to a man than to you. Never let yourself to be put in the shadow.”

“Men are like wine. You taste them, they seem good, they arouse your senses... But after? You suddenly find yourself with your head spinning. And if you are not careful, if you don’t chose only those high quality ones, you will end up feeling also nauseated.”

“Ask yourself what you really want from life.
Don't follow that crowd.”

“This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. […] You practice whether you want to or not.
Through practice you actually do get better.
Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."”

“At the end of the day, it would be wise to learn how to cooperate with others; so as not to put yourself first most of the time.”

“How can you find peace or label yourself as being 'free' while you are still terrified of Mondays?!”

“It's all beautiful to respect others. But you must remember to leave some respect for yourself too!”

“Reconcile with all the types of fears and learn to forgive yourself in times of difficulty.”

“The new commandment is that, it's a sin to disbelieve in yourself.”

“The truth about respect is that, you can't respect nor disrespect yourself!”

“There are only two options in life: Either you refrain yourself from making promises or from breaking them after you have failed the first test.”

“There is a sound of humility in the word 'under-standing'. Meditate upon it, then lower yourself to truly understand.”

“You should not allow yourself to be compared to the mob, or the people who are ready to rebel against a regime which they believe does not serve their interests any longer. Great ideas come only when we are deeply thinking alone and thus, making it much easier to put these thoughts into action.”

“A lady is just a lady. But if you call yourself as a gentleman, then it becomes debatable.”

“Do not repeat things without examining them yourself, even if it is a beautiful idiom.”

“Even your future wife / husband will be a complete stranger. Therefore, don't limit yourself to making more friends. At the same time, that doesn't mean not choosing wisely.”

“Finally, remember to blame no one, including yourself, whenever some calamities fall upon you.”

“I can easily give away everything I own, but don't sin against yourself by trying to interfere with my freedom of choice.”

“If you fail in your leadership, then blame yourself. God has nothing to do with you leading other souls under your own feet.”

“The fear of death comes from identifying yourself as the body. The earthly component, rather than the pure soul within.”

“The funniest thing about being a human is that you can easily disagree with yourself.”

“The less you expect from others and yourself, the happier you will become in life.”

“The purpose of meditation is not to calm the mind. It's all about controlling your thoughts and emotions. Familiarise yourself with good and evil, the shortest path to eternal wisdom.”

“There is no peace of mind without finding yourself. Know yourself, or just find the location of your own soul.”

“To love with all your heart is forcing yourself to go beyond the physical attributes and focus on something much bigger.”

“You are offered a chance to live and enjoy yourself in this world, but sooner or later, death will come knocking on your door.”

“You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.”

“Fireflies remind me of that no matter how big the troubles may be, a small lamp of hope can dispel darkness. It doesn't matter if you are small, but what matters is your belief in yourself.”

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

“Life is so much a daily exercise in learning to love yourself and forgive yourself, over and over.”

“Love finds you when you start feeling incomplete in life. Love finds the good in you despite having millions of flaws in you. Love holds your hand and removes the emptiness of your life and you start loving yourself.”

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew. They are what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm”

“Which do you pay dearer for, lies or the truth?
The former costs you yourself, the latter at most your happiness.”

“When you do action stuff and sci-fi stuff, you have a lot to hide behind - the hair and the makeup and the special effects. But when you play a normal girl, it's challenging because you have to trust yourself.”

“What if the Internet breaks tomorrow? Then you'd realize that you're a human being, and you're not validated by what other people think of you - it's how you think of yourself.”

“Do not limit yourself because no dream is too big.”

“Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'”

“...only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”

“Ask yourself what is the point of advertising prescription drugs... Clearly they... expect we will... demand that our doctors write the prescriptions.”

“Life without friends is like a mirrorless life, friends are like a mirror that connects you to yourself. Life without friends seems like an incomplete picture in which there is no color, friends make our colorless world colorful and life beautiful.”

“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.”

“The earth on which you live, you, yourself, and every other material thing are the result of evolutionary change, through which microscopic bits of matter have been organized and arranged in an orderly fashion.”

“I think anybody who gets to that stage in reality is so beyond self-loathing. If you hate yourself, well, then you're going to turn some of that hatred on the world around you.”

“Control of the mind can be achieved by understanding yourself, the aim and the energy which is blocking us from progressing. Between God and the Self, the blocking energy is the ego.”

“Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.”

“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

“A lot of people try to boil down creation to just one thing and "what are you gonna do next" as if there's always a ladder to climb and it's like, the ladder is what you make for yourself, right?”

“If you take little account of yourself, you will have peace, wherever you live.”

“Keep silence and do not always be comparing yourself with others.”

“Do not judge yourself, but live with someone who knows how to behave himself properly.”