Top 100 Build Yourself Quotes
#1. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.
Tavi Gevinson
#2. Lie down there in the shade and sleep, and I will soon build the castle for you. If it would be a pleasure to you, you can live in it yourself.
Jacob Grimm
#3. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
Seth Godin
#4. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.
Irvin D. Yalom
#5. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.
Bob Marley
#6. Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.
John Darnielle
#7. It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
Jim Rohn
#8. Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
John Wooden
#9. AFFIRM TO YOURSELF
'I am enthusiastic and eager to change myself, to move ahead and build a new future.
Sirshree
#11. Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
Terry Pratchett
#12. If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice.
Chris Hardwick
#13. He taught me to be a Da Vinci
and I sit here, with his portraits
waiting for him to return
I do not think he will
Is that what it means to be human
to be all powerful,
to build a temple to yourself
and leave
only the walls to pray
Phil Kaye
#14. Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#15. Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
Joan Jett
#16. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.
Tony Curl
#17. I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
Ian Hart
#18. American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.
Norman Mailer
#19. Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.
Maya Angelou
#20. The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
Witold Rybczynski
#21. When there is power there is corruption, free yourself from these vicissitudes and you will build an empire based on your beliefs.
Davey
#22. I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
Shakira
#23. I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.
Amadeo Giannini
#24. If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!"
Mitch Hedberg
#25. We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Jeff Bezos
#26. Test your talents, pursue your passions, and let those experiences lead you to a sure sense of who you are. Build a strong core for yourself so that almost nothing and no one can shake you from that foundation. Don't be afraid to know what you want and go after it.
Mary Esselman
#27. You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Elizabeth Edwards
#28. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
#29. Self-affirm - build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.
Lorii Myers
#30. When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you.
Cheryl Richardson
#31. You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#32. I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.
Scott Eastwood
#33. It's nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.
Lana Del Rey
#34. Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.
Ross Mathews
#35. To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself
Shya Kane
#36. Never build yourself up by tearing another down.
Larry Winget
#37. No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.
Exurb1a
#38. You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are - and you just might become the very best version of yourself.
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.
Bryant McGill
#40. 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
#41. If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.
Joel Brown
#42. Become Amish? If you admire our faith, strengthen yours. If you admire our sense of commitment, deepen yours. If you admire our community spirit, build your own. If you admire the simple life, cut back. If you admire deep character and enduring values, live them yourself.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#43. I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
Tamora Pierce
#44. Use the pebbles of failure to build yourself a bridge to success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. Everything comes to you when you ready. If it did not come to you then know that you not yet ready, build yourself to it.
Ana Maria Frith, from: Limitless: Change Your Life
Ana M Frith
#46. Never build a case against yourself."
Les Brown
#47. I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something ... set yourself on something ... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?
Stephen King
#48. I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
Matt Dillon
#49. 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
#50. You'll also need to invest in yourself with the kind of promo that targets your specific audience to help build that word of mouth. Most importantly, believe in what you're doing and in your music and lyrics.
Eliot Lewis
#51. When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned
everyone is now out there except for you.
Nakia R. Laushaul
#52. Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself
Henry Ford
#54. Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Abraham Cowley
#55. I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
William Shakespeare
#56. The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
Carine Roitfeld
#58. It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
Andrew Shue
#59. There are moments of frustration in life. You must build good relations to support you in these moments. You must also learn to encourage yourself and decide to stay determined in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. Sometimes when you build walls you don't realize that other people can see through them. It's yourself you've harmed because you can't see out.
Marilyn Grey
#61. Sometimes you build walls around your heart not to save yourself from hurt, but to see who loves you enough to break them and reach the real you.
Namrata
#62. Once you have recognized and admitted to yourself that there is a problem and have started to gain some understanding of the nature of the problem, you can begin to build deeper intimacy, love, and connectedness. CHAPTER SUMMARY
Paldrom Collins
#63. You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down.
Mitch Mitchell
#64. Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Niklas Zennstrom
#65. 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
#66. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
Haruki Murakami
#67. You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
Andrew Murphy
#68. Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.
Shakti Gawain
#69. One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
James E. Casey
#70. Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Amelia Earhart
#71. If you can't build yourself up without pushing someone else down, it's time to step back and reevaluate just what you're trying to accomplish.
LK Hunsaker
#72. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive ... to build something beautiful.
Steve Maraboli
#73. Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?
Lauren Mackler
#74. As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified.
Miranda J. Barrett
#75. Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#76. Stand up for someone who is in need
so that it will build confidence in you
to stand up for yourself at times when required ...
Adil Adam Memon
#77. It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.
Nick Hornby
#79. There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.
Gilda Radner
#80. You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.
Lanza Del Vasto
#81. Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.
Bianca Sparacino
#82. Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#83. Pride entices us to favor people who build up our egos. Everyone wants to feel accepted and loved. The best way to rid your life of pride is to surround yourself with people who care for you for the right reasons and not just to stroke your ego. Pride is
Charles F. Stanley
#84. If you do ever decide to go on testosterone, build yourself into a good man. The last thing the world needs is another misogynist prick.
Ivan E. Coyote
#85. If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
Daryl Hall
#86. Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.
Miranda J. Barrett
#88. If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.
Stephanie Seymour
#89. Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.
Jack Canfield
#90. Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
Eugene O'Neill
#91. If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for?
Jon Gordon
#92. By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.
Michael Strahan
#93. For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you're the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt.
Martin Cosgrove
#94. There is always some beauty in life. Look up ... and get on with it. Build you a rainbow. Do it yourself! If you can't do that, build your mind near one. Learn how to fly. Then ... soar a little.
J. California Cooper
#96. In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.
Richard Branson
#97. If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.
Emmet Fox
#98. The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.
Sadhguru
#99. We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.
David Brooks
#100. You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
Walt Disney
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