Top 100 Quotes About Looking For Yourself
#1. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."
John F. Kerry
#3. 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
#4. If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.
Kenneth Horowitz
#5. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.
Harold Klemp
#6. The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
Jonathan Pryce
#7. What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you're trying to identify?Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?
John Steinbeck
#8. Something inside you emerges ... an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.
Kristina Haynes
#12. It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.
Grant Morrison
#13. The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
Tom T. Hall
#14. Looking outside of yourself for a solution might sound easy, but most solutions you seek come from within.
Richard Morin
#15. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
Lee Child
#16. I think that in general
well, at least it's true for me
you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.
Sam Lake
#17. I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"
Babatunde Adebimpe
#18. Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.
Leon Brown
#19. The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.
Oprah Winfrey
#20. At some level you remain an orphan for life; looking after children is one way of looking after yourself.
Ian McEwan
#21. Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
#22. It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
Anthony Kiedis
#23. Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh."
Jai Uttal
#24. You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
Ajahn Chah
#25. He's looking at me, torn and passionate, and I don't know how I thought I was truly alive before I met him. This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel. No wonder people live and die for this feeling.
Leisa Rayven
#26. Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give
Oswald Chambers
#27. Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#28. I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#29. Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#30. You give the air of looking for someone, Sophie had said. But I think the missing person is yourself. Each
John Le Carre
#31. If you just look for what's right - in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey - you'll always find it. Same when looking for what's wrong.
Mike Dooley
#32. Wherever you go, find your adventure by looking for the unknown - there you might find yourself.
Brandon Scott
#33. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.
Debra Beck
#34. Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
Rumi
#35. When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
Wayne Dyer
#36. You'll drive yourself crazy looking for something that's not there.
Eowyn Ivey
#37. Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. It's funny, how fast life changes. One minute you are present, and the next, you might find yourself futilely trying to get back to the world you were once part of. You might find yourself looking for people who can no longer hear you. You are in the world, but not of it.
Jodi Picoult
#39. Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.
Matthew Quick
#40. You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.
Taylor Swift
#41. Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Gail Sheehy
#42. No one cares how long you kept yourself virgin and how loyal you are, everyone is looking for a hole to play with.
M.F. Moonzajer
#43. In case you haven't already figured it out for yourself by now", continued Nelson, now looking pridefully at his open hands, "I eat bullies for breakfast
David Hunter
#44. Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer.
Mortimer J. Adler
#45. Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs
Eileen Caddy
#46. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.
Mandy Hale
#47. Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.
Ted Hughes
#48. Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there.
William Least Heat-Moon
#49. ...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that's the image of modern life you're looking for!
Paul Amadeus Dienach
#50. So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you looking for? A mirror. All of a sudden, a mirror is there and you see yourself.
Ray Bradbury
#51. I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
James Lovelock
#52. One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
V.S. Naipaul
#53. May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
Marcel Proust
#54. After all this time searching, i finally found what i was looking for; me.
Nikki Rowe
#55. When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.
Condoleezza Rice
#56. If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Bob Gill
#57. Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.
Chip Heath
#58. Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!
Guy Finley
#59. To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.
Jean Klein
#60. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#61. Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
Osho
#62. The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
Susan Hill
#63. Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.
Deepak Chopra
#64. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#65. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.
Nicolas G. Janovsky
#66. It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.
Susane Colasanti
#67. It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.
Neil Gaiman
#68. You must hope and yet hope for nothing. Look up to something, yes, do that, because that is right for you, you're young, terribly young, Jakob, but always admit to yourself that you despise it, the thing that you're looking up to with respect.
Robert Walser
#69. Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.
E'yen A. Gardner
#70. When you're looking for a needle in a haystack, don't afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.
A.J. Darkholme
#71. There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.
Rankin
#72. So when life throws a curve ball, do your best to hit it and run to first base. If it tries to get you out of the game, do your best to get to the home plate. Yes there will be those looking for you to fail, but there are also those who are cheering you on. If not then cheer for yourself!
Atlanta Hunter
#73. It's not all about love. That's half of it ... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'
Marc Maron
#74. You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
William Albert Allard
#75. When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.
Alan Furst
#76. Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
Kate Upton
#77. There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope.
J. Loren Norris
#78. Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.
Harvey MacKay
#79. Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
Mitch Albom
#80. The truth is, we can't see what we aren't looking at.
David Sturt
#81. It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.
Nick Hornby
#82. Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
Guy Finley
#83. I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I've had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#84. If you are looking for answers for your life, know that the answers are within you. When you close your eyes, and focus on your inner God (meditate), you will know what to do. Trust yourself!
Camilla Dorand
#85. Spare the stress on your neck muscles ... Looking backward takes more energy; it's more painful than looking forward! Go ahead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
Eartha Kitt
#87. If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.
Esther Perel
#88. If you're always negative and angry, looking for the bad, then the only person you're really hurting is yourself.
Melissa A. Hanson
#89. Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."
Frederick Lenz
#90. Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.
Frederick Lenz
#91. There's a moment when you say to yourself: 'Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you forever.
Blaine Anderson
#92. How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?
Tony Earley
#93. Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
#94. Okay, Dom. I think you've admired yourself enough for a few lifetimes," Samuel laughed. "I mean, who could ever get tired of looking at these gorgeous guns?" Dom asked. "Me," Malachi, Danyel, and Samuel all said in unison.
Cameo Renae
#95. Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#96. If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it's easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer - or a spy; you've always got, analytically, a ticket out.
Pico Iyer
#97. You would never find what you are looking for if you couldn't express yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#98. When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.
Loudon Wainwright III
#99. Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#100. I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'
Tina Fey
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