Yourself Quotes

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

~ Travis Bradberry

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

~ Wiz Khalifa

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

~ George Lopez

You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.

~ Eliot Schrefer

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

~ Nas

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

~ Socrates

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

~ Theodore Zeldin

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

~ Sugar Ray Leonard

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

~ Linda Gray

I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

~ Queen Latifah

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

~ Mark Twain

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.

~ Ralph Marston

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

~ Thomas Jefferson

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

~ Elon Musk

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

~ Deepak Chopra

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

~ E. E. Cummings

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

~ Eddie Vedder

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

~ Rachel Platten

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

~ Ronald Reagan

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

~ Tom Hanks

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

~ Floyd Mayweather

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

~ Derek Jeter

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

~ Richard M. Nixon

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

~ Joe Mantegna

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

~ Sholom Aleichem

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

~ Quentin Tarantino

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

~ Michael Schumacher

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

~ Harvey S. Firestone

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

~ Frank Gehry

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

~ David Hasselhoff

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

~ David Seabury

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

~ Aaron Rodgers

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

~ Chris Pine

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

~ Deep Roy

When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.

~ Solange Knowles

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

~ Eli Pariser

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ Booker T. Washington