Yourself Quotes

You've just got to be comfortable with yourself.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

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.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.