Top 100 Teach Yourself Quotes
#1. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#2. To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.
Alan Cohen
#4. It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
Albert Einstein
#5. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Louise L. Hay
#6. I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara
#8. Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as you can do for yourself ...
James A. Murphy
#9. Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.
Gautama Buddha
#10. Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.
Susan Wiggs
#11. The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
Brian Tracy
#12. You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.
Tony Gaskins
#13. I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.
Susanna Hoffs
#14. The things ordained for you - teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you - treat them with love. With real love.
Marcus Aurelius
#15. Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you perceive yourself. If you believe in yourself that confidence shines through and others will believe in you too.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#16. If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.
Cheryl Richardson
#17. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.
Karen Karbo
#18. Good books teach you about others;
great books teach you about yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
Rajneesh
#20. You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.
Silouan The Athonite
#21. A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.
Patrick Rothfuss
#22. If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself
Meg Cabot
#23. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#24. When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.
Rita Zahara
#25. An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
Bruce Lee
#26. The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Alexander Mackendrick
#27. Risotto is one of those dishes you just have to try a few times yourself, to teach yourself the moves and sounds and smells and textures. This is a guide map, but kind of a rough and tattered one.
Shauna Niequist
#28. Teach what is inside you.
Not as it applies to you, to yourself,
but as it applies to the other.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#29. There are limits to self-improvement. Inevitably you hit the point where what you are is, well, what you are, and all the teach-yourself videos and easy-to-use equipment on those creatinous home TV shopping things can no longer ward off you confrontation with your self.
Jessica Zafra
#30. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.
John O'Donohue
#31. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.
Louise Hay
#32. No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. Rose: "If you'd teach me to swear in Russian, I might have a new appreciation for it."Dimitri: "You swear too much already."Rose: "I just want to express myself."Dimitri: "Oh, Roza ... You express yourself more than anyone else I know."- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Frostbite)
Richelle Mead
#34. dealing with drunks and hypes and homeless people who've got one foot in reality and the other in the Twilight Zone, you get used to seeing big changes in people, and usually not changes for the better. You teach yourself to see who's under the new bruises and the fresh coats of dirt.
Stephen King
#35. Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#36. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.
Seneca.
#37. To learn how to learn, you have to love learning - or you have to at least enjoy it - because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself.
Thomas L. Friedman
#38. every day, not matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.
John D. MacDonald
#39. What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.
Gerald Jampolsky
#41. I should practice what I preach. It's a lot easier to show and teach people how to love themselves than it is to do it yourself. I still struggle with it sometimes. I wish sometimes I could always feel that I'm good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me!
Pandora Boxx
#42. Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you
can start writing your memoirs.
Mark Allen Smith
#43. The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.
Cheryl Strayed
#44. Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.
Ingrid Weir
#45. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
Stephen King
#46. Honey," Jammer said, "you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.
William Gibson
#47. You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
Stephen King
#48. There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#49. Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don't expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes.
Toni Sorenson
#50. 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
#51. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
William Faulkner
#52. I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.
Martin Buber
#53. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Patrick Rothfuss
#54. When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
David Morrell
#55. Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.
Suzy Kassem
#56. Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.
Richard Stallman
#57. You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
Bruno Bettelheim
#58. If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#59. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
#60. The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Bernard Malamud
#62. how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you
Rupi Kaur
#63. When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.
Graham Greene
#64. But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself
Haruki Murakami
#65. So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.
Kate Jacobs
#66. There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe.
Byron Katie
#67. I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
Brit Marling
#68. Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?
Lev Grossman
#69. Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you're waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.
A.J. Darkholme
#70. Donate to and help the Universe and you help yourself. Teach the Universe and you enlighten yourself.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#71. Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything.
Jeffrey Fry
#72. Believing in yourself is probably not something anyone can teach you. It's more your attitude toward yourself. But one of the best ways of believing in yourself is not letting failure bother you.
Jay Knight
#73. The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#74. Insist on yourself: never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.' ========== Rose in Bloom A Sequel to 'Eight Cousins' (Alcott, Louisa May)
Anonymous
#75. If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it
teach yourself to be impatient.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#76. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Dodie Smith
#77. You don't learn journalism in school, you learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun.
Warren Ellis
#78. I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.'
'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.
Kristin Cashore
#79. The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.
Jess Walter
#80. Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
Seneca The Younger
#81. Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.
Mila Kunis
#82. A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.
Tionne Watkins
#83. My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
David Hurn
#84. Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.
Corey Irwin
#85. The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.
Jane Cleland
#86. 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
#87. Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.
Boyd K. Packer
#88. Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.
Junot Diaz
#89. As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?
Arthur F. Burns
#90. Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.
Silouan The Athonite
#91. One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.
Giles Rich
#92. Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?
Julia Cameron
#93. It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself.
Nutan Bajracharya
#94. Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each sunset can teach you about yourself, if you listen. If you hear.
Vironika Tugaleva
#95. Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
Keith Emerson
#96. You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.
Gautama Buddha
#97. Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.
Robert Holden
#98. From a recording: "If you're listening to this in your car and you find yourself in a beautiful feeling, roll down your window, pop the tape out of the tape player, and throw it out the window. Stay with the feeling, and it will teach you everything you need to know.
Sydney Banks
#99. Don't think about yourself what you are, just do it because will power and time teach & learn you what you are.
AbdulNasir
#100. One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.
Paul Lisicky