Giving Yourself Quotes

#1. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. You're brooding, Leonard, my friend. What's the problem?"
"I blew it with Fitzgerald."
"I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. It was more like a nuclear disaster.

Joe R. Lansdale

#3. I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

George Shearing

#4. It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering

Valerie Tarico

#5. Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.

Katrina Monroe

#6. I think making shorts is really about giving yourself the opportunity to learn what your strengths and weaknesses are. That's really important to know before getting to your first feature. In many ways you can't afford to make too many mistakes while on that feature.

Aurora Guerrero

#7. This Yes is about giving yourself the permission to shift the focus of what is a priority from what's good for you over to what makes you feel good.

Shonda Rhimes

#8. It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Susan Sontag

#9. Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

Bryant McGill

#10. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

Scottie Thompson

#11. The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

#12. Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them.

Gary L. Thomas

#13. She only regretted the time wasted, what was left unsaid. Undone. That if she'd learned something from what had happened, it was that you needed to live life to the fullest. Every day. Balls to the wall. Afraid of nothing. Much less of possible pain to come. Giving yourself unconditionally.

Elle Aycart

#14. Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

Epictetus

#15. Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone. Giving yourself the kind of attention is so important - and is something that is definitely glossed over by to many women

Kat Von D.

#16. You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

Stephanie Perkins

#17. Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.

Dinty W. Moore

#18. You know, sometimes just giving yourself permission to feel any emotion without judgment or censorship can lessen the intensity of those negative emotions.

Augusten Burroughs

#19. It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

Esther Hicks

#20. For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

Peter Singer

#21. Be very careful that you are not giving yourself to a pale imitation of life with Christ - life about Christ, or life generally near to Christ.

Shauna Niequist

#22. There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Madeline Zima

#23. If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

Gary Zukav

#24. There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.

Jack Reynor

#25. By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak efficiency.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#26. I know that love is giving yourself to someone else. Giving yourself to someone without losing yourself

Tiffany Reisz

#27. Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Katherine Anne Porter

#28. You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

Bob Proctor

#30. I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday.

Robin Farina

#31. How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.

John Requa

#32. Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

Valentino Rossi

#33. O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#34. Don't say you'll try. Say you'll succeed. Trying means you're giving yourself the option to fail. Don't give yourself that option. I didn't and look at me five years sober.

L. H. Cosway

#35. Giving yourself the privilege of destroying other positions while parking your own position in an unidentifiable location is a form of linguistic terrorism.

Ravi Zacharias

#36. With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

Andre Gorz

#37. Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

Bethenny Frankel

#38. If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Mark Rogerson

#39. It's not just about staying in touch with your friends, my dear girl. It is about giving yourself the gift of their company too.

Bronnie Ware

#40. If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."

Aphex Twin

#41. The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

Charles Stanley

#42. Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.

Debasish Mridha

#43. There's a danger in being drawn to something that's not real, in giving yourself to something you can never be a part of, instead of making your life where you are. But those infinite worlds, with their infinite potential, beckoned irresistibly.

Erica O'Rourke

#44. If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

Anna Olson

#45. Strength comes from giving yourself to another. It comes from deep in your heart, the very thing you share with that other person. It comes from knowing that fear isn't an option where a future is so certain.

Emma Hart

#46. The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

Sophie Kinsella

#47. By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

Saint Francis De Sales

#48. I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.

Behdad Sami

#49. Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.

Michael Ealy

#50. When you learn to trust your guts instinct and your ability always, you're ultimately giving yourself the possibility to do good things".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#51. I back up all my rules with discipline. So you'd be giving yourself over to me. Mine to punish. Mine to pleasure

Renee Rose

#52. True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

J. Oswald Sanders

#53. When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

Paul Nicklen

#54. This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

Julie Klausner

#55. giving yourself to me completely, you will be free to heal yourself and see yourself whole. I am going to take the broken parts of you and mend them back together. I will do this for you if you give yourself to me.

Jaden Wilkes

#56. So you must do right for the sake of the right, not in the hope of reward; you must work for the sake of the work, not in the hope of seeing the result; you must give yourself to the service of the world because you love it, and cannot help giving yourself to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#57. When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

Joyce Meyer

#58. It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself

Lou Andeas-Salome

#59. If you let yourself abandon the I-should-know-this-already attitude and simply accept your ignorance without giving yourself a hard time about it, then you can learn whatever it is you need to learn.

Barbara Baig

#60. A honeymoon is, after all, a sex vacation you're giving yourself after a massive party in your honor.

Mindy Kaling

#61. She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ... '
'That's silly!' Micha giggled.
'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!

Antonia Michaelis

#62. Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all.

Erin Loechner

#63. Love means giving yourself to the person you love,being willing to sacrifice everything,even your pride

Elaine Barbieri

#64. Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Pat Riley

#65. Understanding where you come from means taking a good hard look at your past and giving yourself the freedom to learn from it.

Debra Fileta

#66. It's not about finding your voice, it's about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Kris Carr

#67. I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

Mario Cuomo

#68. You don't want to keep giving yourself a sugar spike and then crash and get exhausted and need coffee because you shoot for a long time. On set, I eat a lot of peanut butter and apples, things that have actual energy and protein in them to keep me going.

Allison Williams

#69. Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

Hal Elrod

#70. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.

Sanchita Pandey

#71. By giving love to others you are placing yourself in the endless flow of love you desire. You become the source and force of love.

Annette Vaillancourt

#72. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.

Amit Ray

#73. Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.

Melody Beattie

#74. Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

Eckhart Tolle

#75. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

Tina Turner

#76. Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.

Taylor Swift

#77. I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

Marilyn French

#78. Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard, you don't have to give it all away, you just have to get up You don't have to change a single thing.

Colbie Caillat

#79. Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

Laozi

#80. A great body is a gift you give yourself

Nelly

#81. Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

Frederick Lenz

#82. Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Irving Thalberg

#83. Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.

Robin Sharma

#84. If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.

Michel Thomas

#85. You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

Alan Shearer

#86. Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.

Brian May

#87. Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

Andy Gilbert

#88. Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

Wallace D. Wattles

#89. Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

Glynis Nunn

#90. Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

John C. Maxwell

#91. We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want ... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.

Krishna Das

#92. Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

John Goodman

#93. Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself.

Ralph Marston

#94. Pace yourself in your work and commitments. Nobody is indispensable. And when you get sick, honor your body by giving it the rest and medical attention that it's asking for.

Sue Patton Thoele

#95. 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

#96. Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Kahlil Gibran

#97. It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story

Iyanla Vanzant

#98. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

Gautama Buddha

#99. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.

Tom Platz

#100. Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again.

Debasish Mridha