Do It Yourself Quotes

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down." When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.

There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.

Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

Dammit, America is a hellhole and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

Every company, of course, teaches you so much humanly and professionally [about] yourself and your creative process.

It's pretty irrefutable that you can help yourself. I just don't believe in ultimatums.

If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.

Having the right perspective is tough when you’re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.

My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Life should be fun, and so should your clothes. It's not about sending a message. It's about feeling good about yourself and being who you are.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Once you act with someone, who gives you so much to feed off of, you just have to be there and be yourself, and it comes out.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

It's really important to do everything that you possibly can to stay true to yourself.

I think it's really important to treat yourself with respect because sometimes people can get down on themselves

Remember to be yourself and remember throughout everything why you first wanted to do this.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.