Yourself Quotes

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

I don't really like wearing bikinis. And if you don't either, don't make yourself.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.