Yourself Quotes

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.