Do It Yourself Quotes

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

The name Reflect It Back comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.