Top 100 On Yourself Quotes
#1. Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
Dale Carnegie
#2. You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream
Mel Robbins
#3. I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.
T.J. Dillashaw
#4. A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.
Deena Kastor
#5. Working on yourself will reveal a new image of yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#6. If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren't going right.
Sergio Garcia
#7. Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
Deepak Chopra
#8. Take seriously the criticisms on yourself, then you move forward; ignore the criticisms on yourself, then you move backwards because in every criticism there is at the least some truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Don't 'should' on yourself, instead, replace it with 'could'
and add an alternative option.
Amber Khan
#10. Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
#11. Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.
Jim Rohn
#12. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.
James Cameron
#13. [When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.
Emily Haines
#14. Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?
Augustine Of Hippo
#15. It's unfair to be hard on yourself the first time you attempt something new. It is also unfair to expect others to meet such an unrealistic expectation.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#16. Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. Freedom is a gift to use your will and perception to impose a moral structure on yourself. Without the freedom to choose our path, we are morally crippled.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#19. focus less on the impression you're making on others and more on the impression you're making on yourself.
Amy Cuddy
#20. Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
Pete Wentz
#21. There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.
Janet Fish
#22. How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?
Richie Norton
#23. If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.
Robin Sharma
#24. If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself
Richard Bandler
#25. With all your power, ask the Lord for humility and brotherly love, because God freely gives His grace for love towards one's brother. Do an experiment on yourself: one day ask God for love towards your brother, and another day - live without love. You will see the difference.
Silouan The Athonite
#26. The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.
Paula Radcliffe
#27. Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. To halve the number of asses that you're required to kiss: double your dependency on yourself.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.
Diora Baird
#30. It crosses your mind every once in a while that it's the AFC championship, but it's not any different. It's that whole thing that pressure's a perception, not a reality. It's what you allow to be put on yourself.
Jason Elam
#31. Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it
Dory Hollander
#32. Ralph Waldo Emerson is believed to have said, "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Will Bowen
#33. Work hard on your job and work harder on yourself
Larry Winget
#34. A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you've picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it's okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others ... snap out of it.
Arthur M. Jolly
#35. Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.
Patrick Williams
#36. Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.
Marina Warner
#37. Don't be so hard on yourself," I try to tell him. "It's nothing to be ashamed of." But he's not listening and I'm wondering when I became a motivational speaker. When I made the switch from hating myself to accepting myself. When it became okay for me to choose my own life.
Tahereh Mafi
#38. When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.
Frederick Lenz
#39. One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.
Neil Strauss
#40. All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.
John Wooden
#41. Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.
Leah Busque
#42. Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.
Kresley Cole
#43. Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right. 1 TIMOTHY 4:16 NLT
Bethany House Publishers
#44. There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.
Forrest Griffin
#45. Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.
Larisa Oleynik
#46. If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
Dalai Lama
#47. The only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself
Jane Savoie
#48. Fight, Zinnia, for your soul. You only have one, and one shall remain once you've escaped his clutches... Do not give up on yourself, for strength... it comes... from God.
K. Weikel
#49. Pressure is something you put on yourself.
Bill Cowher
#50. When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you
Zig Ziglar
#51. Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
Morrissey
#53. This sense of alarm about the impact of speech not on yourself but on others is called the third person effect.
David McRaney
#54. Never ever give up on yourself. You are here to make it big.
Avijeet Das
#55. Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
Joe Torre
#56. No one wins when you compare. You don't win. Your family doesn't win. Your friends don't win. You must be in control and not let comparison take hold of your mind. Rather, focus on yourself, your family, and where God has you in your life.
Jessica N. Turner
#57. When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.
Alain Ducasse
#58. Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.
Deep Roy
#59. Depend on yourself and you'll never be let down.
Madhuri Dixit
#60. I think you should never put boundaries on yourself. You should always want to grow.
Britney Spears
#61. Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
Brian Koslow
#62. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.
Shannon Leto
#64. We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
Rupert Everett
#65. My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.
Johnny Depp
#66. Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself
Oprah Winfrey
#67. You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.
Charles De Lint
#68. Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#69. When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.
Eric Shanteau
#70. The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.
Joe Rogan
#71. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.
Ken Livingstone
#72. As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.
Karen Finerman
#73. You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.
Gail Devers
#74. Sometimes you must give up on certain people, but it should be mandatory that you will never ever give up on yourself.
Ben Tolosa
#75. Christians, just like anybody else, want to have an impact on their lives. And if you can find music that helps you have an impact on your family, on your faith, on yourself, then that's the kind of music you want to listen to.
John Tesh
#76. Don't be so harsh on yourself because of your bad decisions you've made in the past and don't let them hinder your life progress. Try to forgive yourself and accept it as a learning curve for you and thank God you have managed to turn things .around.
Euginia Herlihy
#78. There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
James Franco
#79. I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.
Shannon Hale
#80. You should make it hard on yourself to write so you're easier to read.
Fran Lebowitz
#82. It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
Zig Ziglar
#83. The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
Idina Menzel
#84. Get to know how to rely on yourself and think independently and never wait for savior
Sunday Adelaja
#85. As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.
Nikki Haley
#86. I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.
Rob Riggle
#87. Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.
Cathy Moriarty
#88. The more pressure you place on yourself, in search of increase the more you will likely get of it
Sunday Adelaja
#89. I can do nothing for you but work on myself ... you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
Ram Dass
#90. It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.
Deyth Banger
#91. Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
Jane Goldman
#92. Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.
Kevin Eikenberry
#94. Either way, the result is you depending on yourself to do life right. Either way, God isn't even in the room.
Emily P. Freeman
#95. Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.
Robert Plant
#96. I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
Al Sharpton
#97. I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.
Leslie Jamison
#98. At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
Mats Sundin
#99. After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself.
Linda Alfiori
#100. Focus on yourself
do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.
Lauren Weisberger
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