Top 100 Quotes About Yourself First
#1. The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.
Richard Carlson
#2. You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let you know if you're dishing bullshit or if it's real.
Robert Longo
#3. 'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner ... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.
Tobin Bell
#4. To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.
Lorii Myers
#5. Never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself
Judy Garland
#6. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.
Irvin D. Yalom
#7. The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.
Robin Sharma
#8. When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
Rumi
#9. The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage
Xenophon
#10. Close your eyes. Let a smile as big bright and bold as a disco chorus blaze across your face. Fall in love with the universe and everything in it. See yourself for one moment as the subject of every love song ever written. And as she drifts to sleep beside you, start a brand new song.
J.C. Lillis
#11. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.
Sil Lai Abrams
#12. It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.
Noel Gallagher
#13. There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson
#15. LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!
Jane Kaczmarek
#16. When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
Barbara Walters
#17. One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.
Harold Hobbs
#18. The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.
Dale Carnegie
#19. No one can go back, but everyone ca go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises,all you have to say to yourself is:I am going to think this day as the first day of my life.
Paulo Coelho
#20. If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.
John Duover
#21. You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
Bill Kurtis
#22. Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.
Brian Tracy
#23. It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?
Dalai Lama
#24. Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others. There
Chetan Bhagat
#25. Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#26. You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fall.
Mary Lou Retton
#27. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.
Shellie Palmer
#28. And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!
Rachel Caine
#29. All this talk about "finding yourself"; often, other people show you yourself first.
Harriet Lane
#30. First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
Zhuge Liang
#31. I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.
Orson Scott Card
#32. Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!
Angie Martinez
#33. When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.
Marcello Giordani
#34. You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.
Jennifer Lopez
#35. I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
T.D. Jakes
#36. When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
Jane Campion
#37. To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#39. Why do you voluntarily deceive yourself and require to be told now for the first time what fate it is that you have long been labouring under? Take my word for it: since the day you were born you are being led thither.
Seneca.
#40. They say learning to love yourself
Is the first step
That you take when you want to be real.
Tiesto
#41. But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.
Meb Keflezighi
#42. To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave.
Annie F. Downs
#43. Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
David Seabury
#44. The first and immediate thing to do when you find yourself stuck in terror is to breathe!
Deborah Sandella
#45. To inspire others, you most first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others
Daniel Delgado F.
#46. The first step is always one of surrender. Not my will but your will be done. I believe the fastest way to get God's attention and become fruitful in the Kingdom is to surrender yourself to him.
Steve Uppal
#47. I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!
Slavoj Zizek
#48. First rule of bathing," Gavril said. "If you can't smell yourself anymore, it's time to wash.
Brian McClellan
#49. You'll never be ready. Some things you just have to deal with head on and see what happens. You can't save anything if you don't save yourself first.
Amy Matayo
#51. When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#52. Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ...
Stephen Richards
#53. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Cain
#54. If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.
Mike Scioscia
#55. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
#56. Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
Armand Hammer
#57. You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
George Clooney
#58. Is it dangerous to want so much to know someone without first knowing yourself?
Christina Lauren
#59. Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.
Keshia Chante
#60. Remember that to yourself, you are and always will be the strongest element in your environment. That's why any job, right or wrong, will teach you important lessons about yourself. The truth is that personal development is the real reason you should be working in the first place.
Barbara Sher
#61. Get up, Imogen, and get yourself ready for battle. From now on, the orders around here are going to come from me." "And the first thing you're going to do is free my son from that accursed Malachi Configuration.
Cassandra Clare
#62. Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#63. It taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne
"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip
Nora Roberts
#64. You know -" Bailey pulled her aside "-you're stoning yourself. You have to stop doing that and remember what happened when those people wanted to stone that girl. Jesus said for the one who hadn't sinned to cast the first stone. But you're saving people the trouble by stoning yourself.
Brenda Minton
#65. Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.
J.R. Rim
#66. Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
Dan Zadra
#67. Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n
Nikki Rowe
#69. Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
Simon Sinek
#70. It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action.
Vironika Tugaleva
#71. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - WILL ROGERS
David Allen
#72. Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.
Tania Bruguera
#73. One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?"
"Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.
Cassandra Clare
#74. The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.
Orrin Woodward
#75. 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
#76. If you dig a grave for your neighbour, first measure it for yourself.
Diana Darke
#77. To be pure, forgive yourself.
To love others, forgive them first.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Look yourself... staring into the monitor... and your time is going to be lost like that...
First seconds
Second minutes
Third hours
Deyth Banger
#79. They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.
J. Michael Straczynski
#80. To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.
Ram Dass
#82. Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting.
T.F. Hodge
#83. "Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.
Emily Post
#84. The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control
Venancio Cadle Gomani Jr.
#85. Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself 'so what?' Then, after answering, ask yourself again 'so what?' And then a third time - 'so what?' Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place.
Tom Perrotta
#87. I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.
James Cameron
#88. You can never save everyone in this world ... so be happy and save yourself first!
Timothy Pina
#89. There are two differences between an orgy and a sex club. First, at a sex club it's considered bad form to introduce yourself to someone before you start putting parts of his body in your mouth. At an orgy you are allowed to offer your name as long as you do so with an obvious sense of irony.
Joel Derfner
#90. Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure that you were first in the pecking order, you experienced an immense peace.
Karen Armstrong
#91. In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
#92. You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.
Ryan O'Connell
#93. When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
Oprah Winfrey
#94. If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!
Michael Eisen
#95. I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back.
Robin Farina
#96. The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#97. I don't know what mentality you young girls have these days. What happened to loving yourself first? You have to love yourself and God first before you give yourself to man. You young girls just ass backwards.
P. Dotson
#98. When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.
Kunal Nayyar
#99. Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day
Evan Sutter
#100. If you're a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.
Theodora Goss
