Yourself Quotes

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

~ Kevin Costner

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

~ Nick Cannon

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

~ Ethan Hawke

I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.

~ Ashley Jensen

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

~ Bo Burnham

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

~ Phillips Brooks

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

~ Franz Kafka

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

~ Henri Matisse

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

~ Rudyard Kipling

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

~ Bob Iger

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

~ Masatoshi Koshiba

My friends have said, 'Wait, you're pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you're interested in science?' I have to just hold my head and go, 'Do you hear yourself?' By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.

~ Auli'i Cravalho

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

~ Francis Collins

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

~ Dr. Seuss

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

~ Audre Lorde

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

~ Robert Duvall

I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

~ Joelle Carter

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

~ Billy Dee Williams

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

~ Dave Pelzer

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

~ Yoko Ono

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

~ Ann Landers

Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.

~ Kenneth Lonergan

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

~ Lao Tzu

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

~ Mary J. Blige

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

~ Mariah Carey

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

~ Charlotte Brontë

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

~ Willem Dafoe

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.

~ Jason Statham

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

~ Scott Hamilton

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

~ Nacho Figueras

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

~ Erik Erikson

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

~ Ralph Marston

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

~ Saint Francis De Sales

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

~ Judith Light

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

~ Tate Donovan

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself.

~ Sharon Jones

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

~ Paul Mcdonald

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

~ Lil Wayne

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

~ Billy Joel