You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents’ house.
Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God’s borne out on you.
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that’s all that matters.
Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.
You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don’t think that you’re worthy, you’re never going to make it.
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
As a driver, you’ve always got to believe in your heart that you’ve got what it takes to win it. You’ve always got to believe in yourself. You’ve always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You’ve always got to believe in the positives.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don’t genuinely believe in yourself, it’s useless.
When you’re doing good, everybody praises you. But when everything’s all gone, a lot of people are nowhere to be found. So you always just believe in yourself, do it yourself and you won’t be let down.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I’m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it’s hardest to see.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing ‘I Am What I Am’ in the musical ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It’s like when you see photos of yourself at parties – at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Be beautiful, be stylish, and love yourself.
Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you’ve got to squeeze your buns. That’s my formula.
I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Confine yourself to the present.
Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
I think it’s important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and… everybody’s hot.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.
I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it’s always going to make you remember who you are.
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
Loving yourself is a journey, not a destination.
While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do something because you really want to do it. If you’re doing it just for the goal and don’t enjoy the path, then I think you’re cheating yourself.
The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.
