Yourself Quotes

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

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.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

You need someone who is going to help you make that better version of yourself.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.