So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can’t put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you’re doing it from a position of correction.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
You change the world by being yourself.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you’re giving to them.
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
Know your power, believe in yourself and don’t let anyone dim your light.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
It’s always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it. Life’s too short.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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.
You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.
God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself – that’s hot.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
There are times when I get really depressed, when I’m going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I’ll think, ‘Forget it. I want to be this way.’ I often feel that way. But when we started the Love Yourself World Tour, I stopped having those thoughts.
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.
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
The more you believe in yourself, the faster you’re going to get.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can’t necessarily get any other way.
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
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.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.