Ask Yourself Why Quotes

#1. If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

Dale Carnegie

#2. For something to be forbidden, Leila, someone must make it forbidden. Ask why. Always ask yourself why.

Alex Stargazer

#3. You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, 'Why did that last one work?' I think that's the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don't know why things work.

Gilbert Morris

#4. That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

Jeff Tweedy

#5. It is important to ask yourself why you're doing what you're doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

Miley Cyrus

#6. Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted.

George R R Martin

#7. How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

Jackson Browne

#8. Consume the horizon and then examine the sky,
Digest all the questions and ask yourself why."
~James Lagoski~

James Lagoski

#9. Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#10. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

Joyce Rachelle

#11. ask yourself why, what you will measure, and what you can learn from it.

Dave Coplin

#12. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.

Dan Pearce

#13. When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

Jeff VanderMeer

#14. When someone hurts you over and over, ask yourself, WHY DO YOU LET THEM?

Karen Gibbs

#15. If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

Christopher Rice

#16. If you don't feel any connection to the ocean, then ask yourself why your tears, blood and saliva contain about the same percentage of salt.

Jim Lynch

#17. Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing and how your life will improve by becoming fitter.

Jillian Michaels

#18. Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36

Ryan Holiday

#19. When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng

#20. Right where you are is where you need to be. Don't fight it! Don't run away from it! Stand firm! Take a deep breath. And another. And another. Now, ask yourself: Why is this in my world? What do I need to see?

Iyanla Vanzant

#21. Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

Yann Martel

#22. You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.

Sarah Hall

#23. When you are reading something, Mr. Mundy, ask yourself why you are reading it. Are you reading something for information? That is one reason. Or are you reading it for knowledge? Information is only the path, Mr. Mundy. The goal is knowledge.

John Le Carre

#24. Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

Ansel Adams

#25. Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.

Richie Norton

#26. Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

Rita Zahara

#27. If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do.

Stephen Richards

#28. When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.

Simon Mainwaring

#29. If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Oswald Chambers

#30. Romantic relationship is meant to be romantic, which means loving. If it is not any more you may ask yourself why you are still together.

Raphael Zernoff

#31. Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back - throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion - and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

William Thrasher

#32. If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#33. Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#34. One of the problems with trying to find yourself through other people ... it's kind of easy easier to lose yourself in them.
On the plus side, they get to find you, sometimes.
And you can ask them what you're like.
Because obviously you don't have a clue.
Why would you?

Stefan Mohamed

#35. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Chanakya

#36. Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

Jimmy Cliff

#37. Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

Joseph Kosinski

#38. You've got to stop and ask yourself once in a while ... why some asinine politicians would quicker cut out social security than the space program ... Go figure.

Timothy Pina

#39. There's Buddha. If ever I met a hippy-slacker-God, it's Buddha. Just yesterday I had this strange run in with him. 'Buddha bless you,' he says to me. Out of the blue. So I ask him, 'Why do you refer to yourself in the third person?' He smiled at me, his eyes bloodshot and half-closed.

Dylan Callens

#40. But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Leonard Nimoy

#41. But why do you want me? I mean, what am I? Ask yourself that."
"I often have.

P.G. Wodehouse

#42. When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

Rick Warren

#43. Continuously ask yourself, "What makes me feel confident, comfortable, grounded, joyful, connected, and mischievous?" Start noticing when you feel that way and why.

Elle Chase

#44. Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

Zach Braff

#45. If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful: if you treat it as the answer to a question you're asking yourself every day, just by being there.

Nam Le

#46. Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.

Charlie Huston

#47. Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want ... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

Corey Taylor

#48. Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why ... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.

Nikki Rowe

#49. The best questions to ask a killer or ask yourself after an event done by a killer is...
Why he did it...
How he was trapped in this...
Did somebody put him there...

....

Deyth Banger

#50. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Jodi Picoult

#51. They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
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And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
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Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin

Bradley Trevor Greive

#52. It's YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you'd like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don't look left and right and wonder why you're not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you're on and make the most of it. Carpe College!

Michael Metzler

#53. Why are you asking me now?" I asked. "Why didn't you ask me before?"
"You seemed a little ... unstable," Mayson said. "Now you seem to be more like yourself ... which is still ... rather unstable.

L.D. Davis

#54. When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.

P.A. Wunderlich

#55. Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

Beverly K. Bachel

#56. Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

Gabrielle Zevin

#57. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.

Michael Bungay Stanier

#58. Ask yourself what it is that a code of moral values does to a man's life, and why he can't exist without it, and what happens to him if he accepts the wrong standard, by which the evil is the good.

Ayn Rand

#59. A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night ... every day.

Ajahn Chah

#60. Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.

Christina Engela

#61. Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

Guy Finley

#62. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.

Maria Erving

#63. Why?"
He sauntered towards her. "Why, what?"
"Why are you here?"
He sighed. "Well, I think everyone goes through a time in their lives when they ask that same question. It's brave of you to finally step outside of yourself and-

Rachel Van Dyken

#64. What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

John Carpenter

#65. Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Edward Snowden

#66. When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"

Paul Bloom

#67. There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'

Penny Jordan

#68. Why? Why is it has to be this, why not the other way round? Is there a simpler way? What can I do with this? Ask yourself all sorts of questions.

Jack W.

#69. For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

James Allen

#71. Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it's your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

Jillian Michaels

#72. Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.
What are you running from?
What are you waiting for?

Sanhita Baruah

#73. When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

Josh Linkner

#74. Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

Stanley Hauerwas

#75. At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else ... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth.

Nayvadius Cash

#76. Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?

Walter Moers