Top 100 Life For Yourself Quotes
#1. The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
Marc Veasey
#2. The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.
Charles F. Glassman
#3. You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
Imelda May
#4. Make a better life for yourself and decide today that you will only accept perceptions that are authentic to you and which support your positive growth.
Donnalynn Civello
#5. The only way to truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.
Jim Stovall
#6. You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
Henry James
#7. Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.
Sri Chinmoy
#8. We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love? Love.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#9. Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.
Hayley Williams
#10. Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
Benjamin Clementine
#11. Remember, if you fail you can start a new life for yourself in North Carolina.
Grace Helbig
#12. I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.
Melanie Brown
#13. The best job in the world is discovering life for yourself.
Marty Rubin
#14. The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, I believe, when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of
purpose, passion, and perseverance, you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and the rest of us.
Charles F. Glassman
#15. Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.
Antonin Sertillanges
#16. Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.
Lana Del Rey
#17. Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
Lisa Scottoline
#18. You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
Sylvia Plath
#19. Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.
Sean Combs
#20. When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.
John Mellencamp
#21. Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
Jonathan Galassi
#22. If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#23. Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
Ayad Akhtar
#25. Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
Aleksandar Hemon
#26. 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
#27. You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think.
Michele Woolley
#28. Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.
Suzy Kassem
#30. Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.
Herbie Hancock
#31. People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.
Tony Gaskins
#32. Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.
Lou Tice
#33. The more your appreciate yourself the more you will have the energy from within.Stop sourcing for external energry source to charge yourself. Seek the light within and it will brighten you more, remember you truely are one amazing, beautiful, gorgeous soul.
Revathi Sankaran
#34. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.
Robin Sacredfire
#35. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.
Eric Foner
#36. Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
Jeff Lindsay
#37. The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge.
Westley Tusa
#38. Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#39. Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!
Louise Hay
#40. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
Janet Morris
#41. There is no correct path. We pave our own roads. Don't be afraid to find your own way.
... I hate to see people hung up on "what they're supposed to do". Decide for yourself. There is no other way
Alex Gaskarth
#42. It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.
Darren Hardy
#43. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.
Carolyn Brown
#44. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change
Renae A. Sauter
#45. Loving yourself is the single most important thing you can do to create the life of your dreams.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#47. Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while," Calista told me. "Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.
Lisa Graff
#48. Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.
David Rakoff
#49. Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.
Dianna Anderson
#50. Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
#51. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#52. Any time you start feeling sorry for yourself or you go into a rant about how bad life sucks, you immediately have to name five greats.
Amy Harmon
#53. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
Thornton T. Munger
#54. I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life
Haruki Murakami
#55. People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.
Adam Phillips
#56. You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.
Isabel Vincent
#57. What is one common thing every one craves for? It is love... Love others unconditionally, honestly and truthfully. When you fill your being with love, you make yourself healthier and happier.
Sanchita Pandey
#58. Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.
Demi Lovato
#59. If I'm to change my life for you, I've got to have some hope."
"I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. Sometimes jn your life you make a decision and you find yourself questioning it. A lot. You don't regret it, exactly.you know that you probably made the best choice and that you're probably better off for it. But you do spend a lot of time wondering what the hell you were thinking
K.A. Tucker
#61. It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.
Sarah Shahi
#62. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
Sharon Law Tucker
#63. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#64. Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.
Meg Cabot
#65. The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.
Katherine Heigl
#66. And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
Homer
#67. Ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.
Charles R. Swindoll
#68. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.
Phillip Moffitt
#69. What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. - The Monk (Pg-95)
Shashi
#70. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.
Archibald Marwizi
#71. It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with so you can start the next one. You tell yourself you're going to do lots of positive things. But the next day is just like the one before. Sometimes it goes on for weeks.
Robert Smithson
#72. You always knew that one day you would stand up for yourself ... That one day you would raise the standard of your life ... That one day would say to yourself, "Enough with this bullshit" ... You might as well make today that day.
Steve Maraboli
#73. My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else.
Nick Vujicic
#74. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life,
Haruki Murakami
#75. 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
#76. you have to come to terms with the fact that you've really only got yourself in life, and if you don't make yourself happy someone else isn't going to make you happy. Too many people clutch onto someone else, looking for security and acceptance.
Will Fellows
#77. When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.
Bernard Sumner
#78. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#79. Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.
Liz Garbus
#80. Don't try and perfect yourself for one person. Wait for the one who loves your imperfections and make you feel perfect.
Atul Purohit
#81. I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
Randy Harrison
#82. Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons ... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.
Robert Muller
#83. I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.
Nick Lake
#84. You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#85. Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#86. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
Leo Buscaglia
#87. Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
#88. One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water ... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.
Dick Button
#89. For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
Carol S. Dweck
#90. The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.
Norman Rush
#91. If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
George Edward Woodberry
#92. You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.
Dan Chaon
#93. The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
Tom T. Hall
#94. If you want to test how powerful your mind is, simply start thinking positively and see the results for yourself.
Maddy Malhotra
#95. No matter what, you shall have a reason for action because of whom and what is closer to you and where you find yourself.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
John Ruskin
#97. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#98. Spiritual dating is a way to date and enjoy yourself that is emotionally safer, gentler, and infinitely more pleasurable than regular dating.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#99. As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.
Paul Cornell
#100. Be kind to yourself and congratulate yourself for small success.A small step cover a big distance-enjoy the journey of life.
Andy Andrews
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