Yourself Quotes

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.