Yourself Quotes

Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

~ Peter Dinklage

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

~ Maya Angelou

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

~ William Shakespeare

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

~ Wayne Dyer

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

~ Iris Apfel

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

~ Bernard Meltzer

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

~ Peter Marshall

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

~ John Lennon

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

~ Lee Iacocca

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

~ Emmitt Smith

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

~ Meister Eckhart

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

~ Mao Zedong

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Get to know the job intimately that you're applying for. Don't just read the job description - study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.

~ Travis Bradberry

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

~ Ramakrishna

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

~ Toni Servillo

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

~ Chuck D

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

~ Marsha Norman

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

~ Austin Stowell

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

~ Brad Pitt

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

~ Kathleen Hanna

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

~ George Foreman

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

~ Marcus Allen

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

~ Lester Holt

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

~ Raul Julia

Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

~ Gordon Ramsay

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

~ Sun Tzu

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

~ Hermann Hesse

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.

~ Guy Finley

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

~ Katherine Mcnamara

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

~ Edmund Hillary

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

~ John Frusciante

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

~ Travis Bradberry

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?

~ Linda Mcmahon

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

~ Marianne Williamson

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

~ Caroline Rhea