Yourself Quotes

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

~ Jane Fonda

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

~ Benjamin Clementine

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

~ Patty Duke

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.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

~ Rupi Kaur

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

~ Vera Farmiga

I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.

~ Brittany Snow

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

~ Andrej Pejic

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

~ Elizabeth Peyton

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

~ Franklin P. Jones

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

~ Margot Robbie

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

~ Danny Boyle

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

~ Cathy Guisewite

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

~ Asap Ferg

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

~ Joel Edgerton

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

~ Rebecca Hall

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

~ Catherine Tate

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

~ Nigella Lawson

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

~ Sylvie Meis

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

~ Alexandra Adornetto

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

~ Phylicia Rashad

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

~ Pierce Brosnan

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

~ James Altucher

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

~ Lily James

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

~ Margo Jefferson

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

~ Frank Ocean

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

~ Russell Simmons

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

~ Catie Curtis

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

~ George Orwell

Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.

~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

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.

~ Mac Miller

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

~ Andre Rieu

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

~ Lynn Coady

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

~ Richard Simmons

I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

~ Tavi Gevinson