Live By Yourself Quotes

#1. If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

Benjamin Clementine

#2. It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Merrill Markoe

#3. I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

Brooklyn Sudano

#4. Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

Haruki Murakami

#6. 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

#7. Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. By inspiring and healing others, you inspire and heal yourself.

Melanie Greenberg

#9. 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

#10. Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)!

Shay Dawkins

#11. When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.

Anne Lamott

#13. Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

Paulo Coelho

#14. The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ... moment.

Eugene H. Peterson

#15. You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

Nikki Rowe

#16. You must start to live your life by the light of what you yourself would want carved on your stone" (302).

Sandra Benitez

#17. What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself?

Dejan Stojanovic

#18. Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Gianni Versace

#19. Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.

Lee Child

#20. Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

Etty Hillesum

#21. We tend to suppress our anger against each other which ultimately leads to big quarrels some day. If two people have been naturally expressing their differences of opinion or having small arguments on regular basis, they will never have resentment or enmity of a lifetime.

Deep Trivedi

#22. Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

C.S. Lewis

#23. Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

Steven Cuoco

#24. In order to know the world from the outside, you must know yourself from the inside.

Steven Cuoco

#25. If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

RZA

#26. You are the only one who knows what is best for yourself. Find it IN you.

Catherine B. Roy

#27. To move ahead ... you must grab the bull by the horns and start living your life. Stop living and doing everything for others and live it for yourself!

Timothy Pina

#28. If we are talking about choice and regret, what has happened cannot be undone. And dwelling on the past changes nothing. You will only drive yourself to insanity if you do.

Julie Kagawa

#29. My day will come, but until then, I patiently continue moving forward.
-Never allow yourself to become stagnant-

Andrea L'Artiste

#30. If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

James Earl Jones

#31. I don't have many rules to live by," he'd said. "But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles
drug or tattoo
and ... no inessential penises either.

Laini Taylor

#32. Value yourself and those who are in your company will reflect the same image.

Steven Cuoco

#33. If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT!

Shay Dawkins

#34. And you also think we have time to nap?" "Just because all Hell's trying to break loose doesn't mean you shouldn't take care of yourself." "Words to live by," Jack muttered. "Well, let's hope.

Gini Koch

#35. The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.

Stacie Hammond

#36. That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

Lisa Bonet

#37. The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.

Rush Limbaugh

#38. 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

#39. There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore,
Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself.
Let life be funny, but never a joke.

Nikki Rowe

#40. Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

David Gaider

#41. My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

Vironika Tugaleva

#42. No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#43. If you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "What am I gonna do?" But my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. And he had already told me "Whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife."

Anthony Ray Hinton

#44. Amendment to live by-
J.O.Y.
Jesus first,
Others second,
Yourself last.

Michelle Duggar

#45. Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and you'll gift yourself abundantly.

Michelle Geaney

#46. To give yourself away keep yourself still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

William Shakespeare

#47. Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

John Of The Cross

#48. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

Sara Maitland

#49. Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.

Al R. Young

#50. You can't wake up miserable and expect something outside yourself to change that mood, you have to be willing to change that mood so you expect the best from your outside world.

Nikki Rowe

#51. We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages - from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends - with one underlying theme: Live for yourself.

Billy Graham

#52. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?

Nothing.

Ari Gold

#53. I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths.

Nikki Rowe

#54. The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.

Dean Cavanagh

#55. Teach yourself to live and work by a budget. Every family should operate on a budget. This is an estimated and documented list of expected income and expenses for a given period in the future.

Sunday Adelaja

#56. Focus on the POSITIVE
Recognize the BLESSINGS
Find the HUMOR
Hope for the BEST
&
Brace yourself for the worst.

Tanya Masse

#57. Before you go to live the life you are being forced by others to live, remember they'll never be there to share your challenges and emotions that come with it together with you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

#59. If you are only what you are,
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying.

Dejan Stojanovic

#60. If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Nic Pizzolatto

#61. They often say that humans can't live alone. But you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group. It's better to be alone in your solitude.

Faye Valentine

#62. To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#63. Live by your own rules. Dont let anybody hold you back. Be different and be yourself. You only get to live once, so make it whatever you want it to be.

A.T. Veatch

#64. Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.

Shellie Palmer

#65. If you are in hard times, ask yourself: "What would this problem and my life mean to people two hundred years from now?

Catherine B. Roy

#66. Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you're faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

Tanya Masse

#67. You deserve to live your best life now, so set yourself free by forgiving and letting go of that hurt you've been holding on to.

Jamie Larbi

#68. Begin your day by saying "I AM". You will begin to believe that you have control of your life, freedom of expressing yourself with ease, and the clarity to recognize your own truth.

Steven Cuoco

#69. The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.

Sonia Friedman

#70. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..

Alma Alexander

#71. Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

Brian Tracy

#72. If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Teresa Mummert

#73. Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

Abraham Verghese

#74. Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.

Brian Johnson

#75. When you remove yourself from what is no longer healthy for you, great things begin to surface.

Steven Cuoco

#76. Friendships offer more than happiness and a feeling of mutual camaraderie; in time they are most important while giving you permission to ultimately be yourself.

Steven Cuoco

#77. We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.

Summer Sanders

#78. Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

Meg Cabot

#79. Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

A.E. Samaan

#80. Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for.

Steven Cuoco

#81. How crazy it is to be "yourself" by trying to live up to an image of yourself you have unconsciously created in the minds of others.

Thomas Merton

#82. You got to give yourself a break and live a little. Don't get swallowed up by all your problems.

Anonymous

#83. You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.

Cornel West

#84. It was one of those country parties where it felt as if no matter where you went you were always being watched by either a live horse or a dead stag, until you found yourself lingering by the washbasin after a piss just to escape this weirdly oppressive ungulate panopticon.

Ned Beauman

#85. Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Bob Dylan

#86. You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

Kelly Rutherford

#87. That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Gianni Versace

#88. Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

Dianna Agron

#89. 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

#90. This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else ...

Jimi Hendrix

#91. If you want to cry, then cry. Decide by yourself whether you are important or not. Even if other people value you, nobody can do anything for you. Ultimately, it's your problem so if you live without regrets, then over time I think that your problems would disappear.

Kyo

#92. Gift yourself the opportunity to allow for your dreams to chase you down.

Steven Cuoco

#93. Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

Douglas Conant

#94. You never walk alone when you have yourself by your side.

Steven Cuoco

#95. When you are where wild bears live
you learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself. Bears not only make the habitat rich, they enrich us just by being.

Linda Jo Hunter

#96. I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and ... As far as me being, I live by those principles.

Kevin Gates

#97. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

#98. Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

Owen Sheers

#99. I live by three simple rules

1. Order your existence in a way which is necessary to meet your needs.

2. Surround yourself with people that can be manipulated.

3. In every conquest find a way to be victorious.

Daniel Corey

#100. You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy