Yourself Quotes

When you say 'Yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'No' to yourself.

~ Hafiz

Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

~ Bisco Hatori

You are beautiful no matter what they say, remember words can´t bring you down

~ Christina Aguilera

Romantic EgoistNozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.

~ Bisco Hatori

...you never knew anybody completely. Not even yourself.

~ Michelle Dalton

If the gooseberry said: 'I haven't the heart to be a real proper gooseberry because if everyone were a gooseberry the world wouldn't continue to exist' this would be a stupid argument and the world would be deprived of a useful fruit. If you are called upon to be a 'gooseberry' in all the senses--pleasant or ludicrous--of the word, you should be one with all your heart and soul, without a backward glance.

~ Pierre Ceresole

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a Natural Man.

~ U.g. Krishnamurti

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

~ Mark Twain

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

~ Paula Abdul

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

~ Richard Branson

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

~ Lee Iacocca

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

~ Lee Kuan Yew

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

~ Michael Bay

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.

~ Joyce Meyer

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

~ Roger Goodell

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

~ Jane Fonda

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

~ Kelly Clarkson

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

~ Leo Burnett

Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

~ Natalie Massenet

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

~ Sara Blakely

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

~ Joyce Meyer

We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don't believe that is the case. If you have a good attitude toward aging, and you do what you can to live healthy and take care of yourself, I don't think the number matters.

~ Tabatha Coffey

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

~ Henry Rollins

I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

~ Emily Ratajkowski

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

~ Robert Redford

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

~ Cheech Marin

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

~ Ben Elliot

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

~ Cliff Richard

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

~ June Jordan

Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.

~ Justin Tuck

If wearing the Spanx helps you get looks, and you feel that energy and response, and you're rocking your body with confidence, that's still how you'll feel about yourself when you get home and take the Spanx off... If your attitude improves from the Spanx, wear the Spanx!

~ Lisa Ann Walter

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.

~ Anne-Marie Duff

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

~ Deval Patrick

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

~ Clint Eastwood

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

~ Lao Tzu

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.

~ Mariano Rivera

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

~ Baltasar Gracián

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

~ K. D. Lang

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

~ Jay Kay