Do It Yourself Quotes

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!

Don't wait to be led...do it yourself, person to person.

It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

Help yourself by helping others.

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy.

Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Wear that cologne, shave your face, shave your head, cut your nails, you know...take care of yourself.

Healthy respect for yourself.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.