Yourself Quotes

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

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.