For Yourself Quotes

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.

Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.

You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.

Your skin and hair feel good, you sleep better and you start feeling so much better about yourself when you start eating properly.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

Operate from a place of love, be kind, and be yourself.

Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Imitation is suicide.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?

Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.

You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?""Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re with.

Authenticity is about what makes you, you. It is an expression of your beingness.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.