Yourself Quotes

It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.

~ Jim Sturgess

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

~ Florence Henderson

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

~ Toni Collette

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

~ Ralph Ellison

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

~ Nina Dobrev

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

~ Toni Collette

It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you.

~ George Michael

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

~ Mark Cuban

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

~ Pink

I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.

~ Mike Bidlo

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

~ Taylor Swift

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

~ H. Jackson Brown

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

~ Kat Graham

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

~ Carmen Electra

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

~ Tom Landry

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

~ Neil Labute

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

~ Jack Welch

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

~ Napoleon Hill

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

~ James E. Casey

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

~ Jack Nicklaus

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

~ James Allen

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

~ Danny Thomas

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

~ Donald Rumsfeld

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

~ Edward De Bono

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

~ Treat Williams

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

~ Larry Flynt

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

~ Danny Thomas

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

~ Andrew Carnegie

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

~ Hozier

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

~ Jay-Z

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

~ Amiri Baraka

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

~ Robert Morgan

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

~ Jonathan Galassi

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

~ Douglas Horton

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.

~ Robin Williams