Yourself Quotes

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

No one invited you to this business. You invited yourself.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.