In this post, you will find great Yourself Quotes from famous people, such as Les Brown, Leo Buscaglia, Martha Beck, Henry Miller, Lee Kuan Yew. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that’s love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.
You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.
Just enjoy every moment – don’t stress. Just be yourself.
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
Everything you want to accomplish is already within yourself so when you start to roll in self-doubt and think negative thoughts then you’ll fall off. So keep visualising and keep knowing what you’re destined for, it’ll come to you.
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
You’re not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.
There’s such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Know yourself to improve yourself.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don’t let somebody else tell you who you are.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, ‘Am I having fun?’
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
There’s no one to stop you but yourself.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.
Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Don’t let others define you. You define yourself.
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.
God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.
You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.
Be yourself and set the trend. Don’t follow.
There’s a time in your life where you’re not quite sure where you are. You think everything’s perfect, but it’s not perfect… Then one day you wake up and you can’t quite picture yourself in the situation you’re in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
It’s doesn’t just come overnight, you’ve got to train for it and believe in yourself; that’s the most important thing.
In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself – that is the best combination.
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you’ve done. Actions speak louder than words.
Everyone grows at their own pace, and you shouldn’t compare yourself to anyone.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
As long as you remain true to yourself and continue training with sincerity, nobody can stop you from achieving excellence.
Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You’ve just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that’s just sticking with my family.
To this day, I don’t like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you’re going to play special.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
Sometimes it’s important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.
My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There’s no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
You can’t think about what other people think. You just can’t. It’s stupid. You’ve got to look inside yourself.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
You cheat yourself when you don’t do what it is you’re supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
You are who you surround yourself with. I know that’s such a cliche quote, but it’s true.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
I’m very comfortable in my skin. Everyone has insecurities – I joke around about wishing I had more cheeks – but I’m happy with who I am. You have to make do with what you have. If you carry yourself right, you can make anything look good.
The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
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.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It’s different than bringing something in by yourself.
You really don’t have to be rich to be sosy. It’s just really a mentality and how you want to carry yourself. You enjoy life.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!
Be yourself. Unapologetically.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
You can’t escape from yourself, can you?
You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
Don’t worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Don’t be afraid to express yourself through fashion!
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
When you’re able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.
Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.
To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
You can’t please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
Bet on yourself and be… more than.
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
Celebrate yourself… and stay positive!
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what’s in your way.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
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.’
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.
It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
Don’t forget to love yourself.
The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.
You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.
You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.
If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, ‘Am I good enough?’ – maybe there is a reason you’re thinking that.
There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.
If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.
If someone else isn’t making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it’s extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn’t matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.
Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don’t let anyone steal your joy.
Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself… to take care of yourself.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful – it’s sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life – one with more oxygen.
Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you’d never dream of doing by yourself.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
When you are injured, you need to strengthen yourself very well to make a comeback very confidently.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
When people don’t believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.
You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that’s what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that’s what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don’t try to be authentic and real with themselves.
Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people.
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.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.
Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily, but things change – nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you’re always going to be legendary.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Where you come from now is much less important than where you’re going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.
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.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Being confident is the key to life. Don’t be afraid to be you! I’m super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I’m OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
You don’t have to live up to anyone else’s standards, you don’t have to look like anyone else, you don’t have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can’t put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you’re doing it from a position of correction.
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.
If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
When you’re uncomfortable, that’s when you learn something new about yourself.
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
If you’re always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we’re supposed to enjoy life.
People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Everybody always going to sound like somebody. You got to separate yourself.
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you – magic all around you – no matter what situation you’re in.
If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever. It’s about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
Sometimes it’s like watching a train wreck. You’re uncomfortable, but you just can’t help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it’s hard for somebody not to like you.
Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Know your power, believe in yourself and don’t let anyone dim your light.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.
You can’t get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
Just because an individual in his 30s hasn’t found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
Don’t hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When you’re doing good, everybody praises you. But when everything’s all gone, a lot of people are nowhere to be found. So you always just believe in yourself, do it yourself and you won’t be let down.
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.
You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.
You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.
The more you back yourself, the more consistent you become in finishing the game.
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.
