Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
I come from a very rough background, and I’m saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
Don’t let others define you. You define yourself.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.
Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world – you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
To this day, I don’t like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you’re going to play special.
The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.
I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
There are ups and downs, but whatever happens, you have to trust and believe in yourself.
It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.
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.
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
Don’t be afraid to express yourself through fashion!
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
Collaboration is important not just because it’s a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.
You can’t think about what other people think. You just can’t. It’s stupid. You’ve got to look inside yourself.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.
I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Regrets are something you can’t really have as an actor, because ultimately you’ll end up destroying yourself… there’s a lot of disappointment in this business.
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, ‘Am I good enough?’ – maybe there is a reason you’re thinking that.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
It’s dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.
I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.
I really believe in the ‘Glow’ and live my life that way. It’s about being positive inside and out and being the best version of yourself possible.
