When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You’ve just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
You’re never going to be bulletproof, but if you’re feeding yourself good food and making sure you’re eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
As soon as you’re locking doors, you’re narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it’s finally just yourself and your buddy and you’ve got no one to party with.
Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
I’ve had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people – whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Celebrate life in all its glory – challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.
Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.
You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.
Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That’s why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.
If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that’s what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that’s what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don’t try to be authentic and real with themselves.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
You are who you surround yourself with. I know that’s such a cliche quote, but it’s true.
Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the same that happened in real life?
Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you’ll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing – to see yourself seeing.
If you think you can do better, then do better. Don’t compete with anyone; just yourself.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you’re not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you’re not in the framework of the script, you’re just making everything easier so it fits you.
