Do It Yourself Quotes

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.

Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Love yourself as you are. Love and approve of yourself.

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.

Believe in yourself, then others will believe in yourself.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

Believe in yourself, don't let people put you in a box and stay positive.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Each meal is an opportunity to express yourself to others, sharing a different perspective of your personality.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of being yourself.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.