It Yourself Quotes

#1. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

#2. 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

#3. If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Jimmy Wales

#4. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Elvis Costello

#5. 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

#6. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.

Lucy Liu

#7. Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.

Agatha Christie

#8. True humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.

Praying Medic

#9. Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

Stockard Channing

#10. If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

Albert Ellis

#11. In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others.

Debasish Mridha

#12. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

James Callis

#13. If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Billy Childish

#15. You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough."
"It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."
Ryder made a face. "Are you insane? why say something like that and temp the cosmos?"
Laith watch him walk away, wondering if he had just drawn the interest of fate.

Donna Grant

#16. Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!

Meaghan Martin

#17. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.

Jacqueline Koyanagi

#18. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.

Kay Harding

#19. The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

David Attenborough

#20. It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Jim Dodge

#21. If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?

Steven Cuoco

#22. It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

Wayne Dyer

#23. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Jane Wiedlin

#24. Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

Earl Nightingale

#25. Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can't do it, you won't do it and you'll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.

Sam Owen

#26. You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

Tama J. Kieves

#27. Take Care of Yourself First- It's Easier to Serve Others That Way.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#28. It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

Johnny Cash

#29. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

David Anthony Durham

#30. It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

Estella Warren

#31. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Rachel Grady

#32. Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

Bisco Hatori

#33. If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.

Frederick Lenz

#34. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

Alison Jackson

#35. Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.

Viggo Mortensen

#36. One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

Jason Priestley

#37. It's the choices you make that construct your future. You can choose to become a victim or you can choose to make decisions that empower you. Surround yourself with people who support your vision so you can keep your focus, and your energy!

Rashmi Bansal

#38. You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

M.J. Rose

#39. That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.

Mark Goldblatt

#40. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

Neil Patrick Harris

#41. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Thomas Wolfe

#42. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Scarlett Johansson

#43. It takes a while to really love yourself.

Ledisi

#44. I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

Kajol

#45. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

Allison Winn Scotch

#46. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

#47. How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see before you resign yourself to calling it all "ruin"?

Veronica Roth

#48. Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.
'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right hand like a child or an American. He smiled.

Gail Honeyman

#49. There's one thing I want you to do for me."
"Anything." He pleaded.
"When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. Ask yourself. Was it worth it?" She closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.

Michelle Umland

#50. Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

Paul Graham

#51. It's time to stop pretending that you're somebody else. No, you can't change this world, but you can change yourself.

Glenn Frey

#52. Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.

Meggie Royer

#53. Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

Terry Bradshaw

#54. It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

Neil Gaiman

#55. Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence - which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Rajneesh

#56. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Ram Dass

#57. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

Scott Snyder

#58. 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

#59. Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Victoria Osteen

#60. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Michael Ende

#61. If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

Marina And The Diamonds

#62. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

Jon Lajoie

#63. If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one of the differences in what I call 'civilians' and 'authors' is that we have an antenna hat buzzing all the time.

David Morrell

#64. If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.

Norman W. Walker

#65. Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.

Art Alexakis

#66. Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Matthew Nable

#67. The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Larry Wall

#68. Every single person in the world has something good about them. You just have to look inside of yourself and focus on it.

Michelle McCool

#69. I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off.

Beth Lewis

#70. The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#71. And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.

Lombard Philip Lombard

#72. If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Eric Schmidt

#73. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Ibn Ata Allah

#74. 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

#75. You aligned yourself with the wron fella and there were consequences. Now you can wallow in it, or you can pull that thick head of yours out of your posterior and help us figure out how to fix things.

Kady Cross

#76. You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

Noel Gallagher

#77. The only thing that stands in the way of an amazing life are the excuses you tell yourself as to why you can't achieve it

Steven Aitchison

#78. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

Rufus King

#79. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#80. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

Liane Moriarty

#81. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Alan Sugar

#82. A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.

Joyce Maynard

#83. Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#84. Be Aunthentic. Be yourself. And most important of all..make it personal

Drew Barrymore

#85. Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Virat Kohli

#86. Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF.

Peter Laughner

#87. When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

Melody Beattie

#88. Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

Costa Georgiadis

#89. Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Enya

#90. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#91. 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

#92. You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#93. Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

Amy Poehler

#94. A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things!

Donna McGoff

#95. Don't listen to what people tell you because they'll try to bring you down. And don't listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.

Chris Colfer

#96. I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

Rainbow Rowell

#97. It's so curious, isn't it? How if you're denied something again and again, eventually you start telling yourself you didn't want it in the first place.

Tessa Dare

#98. Peace is something that comes from within. It is
created by your willingness to accept yourself.

Jason Nelson

#99. It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.

Rachael Wade

#100. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw