Yourself Quotes

1. "Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything."
Author: Ali Smith

2. "If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."
Author: Alvin Ailey

3. "How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gil, in one of our quiet moments are so damned tiring. He laughs.I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired."
Author: Andre Agassi

4. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Author: Andy Warhol

5. "There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about others!"
Author: Anne Frank

6. "Unless you write yourself, you can't know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldn't draw, but now I'm overjoyed that at least I can write. And if I don't have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that."
Author: Anne Frank

7. "We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]"
Author: Anne Lamott

8. "Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human limitations and acts arrogantly and with violence, as if immortal. And pays a terrible price."
Author: Barry B. Powell

9. "You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock."
Author: Bob Newhart

10. "They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.-And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"-Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin"
Author: Bradley Trevor Greive

11. "He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing."
Author: Cassandra Clare

12. "Love is simple. You fall and that's it. You'll work the other stuff out. You just gotta let yourself fall and have faith that someone will be there to catch you."I didn't want to do any falling. Falling usually led to meeting a hard surface in an unpleasant way."
Author: Chelsea M. Cameron

13. "You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all."
Author: Daniel Craig

14. "The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics."
Author: Daniel Smith

15. "Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly."
Author: David Eddings

16. "It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren't good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn't want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don't. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don't want to look at what's rotting there."
Author: Deb Caletti

17. "If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without."
Author: Doreen Valiente

18. "We look so very different from the way we sound. It's a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you're forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself."
Author: Elizabeth Hay

19. "In a fight between yourself and the world, always side with the world."
Author: Frank Zappa

20. "I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself."
Author: G.I. Gurdjieff

21. "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."
Author: George Harrison

22. "Did you ever ask yourself if each one of us pursued a high educational degree, who would do the skilled manual work? Craftsmanship may not earn us the money we want but that does not mean we should scorn on anyone doing it. We are obliged to be respectful and grateful to anyone using their hands to clean our households, trim our hedges,carpentry our furniture, farm our food, crafts the objects we collect and gift, style our hairs, etc. Next time you encounter a crafts person acknowledge their manual competence."
Author: Gloria D. Gonsalves

23. "He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself."
Author: H.G. Wells

24. "Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. Walls. A world completely surrounded by walls."
Author: Haruki Murakami

25. "The moment your dreams and your revelation take a special direction while your plans and actions take the opposite direction you commit yourself into a tight box for failure!"
Author: Israelmore Ayivor

26. "All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member."
Author: Jane Alexander

27. "Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position."
Author: Jennie Finch

28. "Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art."
Author: Jerry Saltz

29. "Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you."
Author: John Bingham

30. "Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."
Author: John D. MacDonald

31. "But don't you know, Mr Stoner?' Sloane asked. 'Don't you understand about yourself yet? You're going to be a teacher."
Author: John Edward Williams

32. "The First Prescription's formula for success: Do whatever makes your inner light brighter. In other words, try to treat yourself and everyone else with love."
Author: Judith Orloff

33. "Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ...sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper.Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis.Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts."
Author: Karen Marie Moning

34. "Part of me tingled with excitement. This was it. I was finally going to be with Will. We were going to make love for the first time—after all this time. But the voices of doubt mocked me. What do you think you're doing? You can't give yourself to him—you've already been had! And by his father. I reached the landing of the stairs and squeezed my eyes shut, desperately battling the raging war in my mind. If I'm with Will, it can erase the past. Our love is powerful enough to take the rape away. I truly believed I could delude myself into accepting he was my first—that what happened in Coach T's office was false. Yes, once we were together, it would change."--Melanie"
Author: Katie Ashley

35. "Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset."
Author: Michael Dean Russell Jr.

36. "Talking to yourself again, jas?yes, it beats talking to you.oh, time machine back to first grade much?only to visit your brain."
Author: Michele Jaffe

37. "If only you knew who you really were you would be fearless and love yourself with a grand passion! You are a unique shard of God, the Universe, the whole or whatever label you would like to call it. No one can take your place and without you endless synchronicity and evolution would not happen. You are so powerful that just by walking down the street you can change someone's life forever."
Author: Michele Knight

38. "At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness."
Author: Natalie Clifford Barney

39. "When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence."
Author: Nicholas Sparks

40. "Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!"
Author: Oliver Reed

41. "Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the responsibility ... Many a man has dwarfed his manhood, cramped his intellect, crushed his aspiration, blunted his finer sensibilities, in some mean, narrow occupation because there was money in it."
Author: Orison Swett Marden

42. "Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss."
Author: Pat Riley

43. "When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer, grinning with evil satisfaction. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not."
Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

44. "The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and I think it obvious that it is, then that's untenable in a country that purports to provide equal opportunity for all. Now of course you'll dispute my claim that it is more difficult to succeed for them. You say the battle's over. I say not only is it not over but you yourself are stationed on the frontline of the battle and have been all these years. This room and the criminal justice system as a whole is the frontline. This is where modern-day segregation lives on."
Author: Sergio De La Pava

45. "When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'"
Author: Stephen Moyer

46. "My granny used to say if you're too sharp you'll cut yourself,"
Author: Terry Pratchett

47. "There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get started."
Author: Tracy Anderson

48. "Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark."
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

49. "Don't mind me," breathed miss Pettigrew. "Please don't mind me. I love it. No one's ever taken an interest in my face before.""Obviously not,' said miss Dubarry sternly. "Not even yourself.""I've never had any time," apologized miss Pettigrew."Nonsense. You've had time to wash, haven't you? You've get time to get a bath. You've time to cut your nails. A woman's first duty is to her face. I'm surprised at you."
Author: Winifred Watson

50. "The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage"
Author: Xenophon

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