To Find Yourself Quotes

#1. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Elvis Costello

#2. If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

Albert Ellis

#3. Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!

Meaghan Martin

#4. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

David Anthony Durham

#5. To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.

Debasish Mridha

#6. At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

Bob Dole

#7. If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

Gail Sheehy

#8. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

C.S. Lewis

#9. To find yourself, get lost for others.

Debasish Mridha

#10. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.

James Jones

#11. If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Bill Laswell

#12. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

Bjorn Borg

#13. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#14. That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.

Goswami Kriyananda

#15. The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

Sam Mendes

#16. I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.

Jennette McCurdy

#17. But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#18. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Alan Bennett

#19. To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

Lily Collins

#20. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

Weegee

#21. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#22. If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.

Kenneth Horowitz

#23. The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.

Pepe Romero

#24. I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody ... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

Serinda Swan

#25. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

Gregory David Roberts

#26. The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

Jonathan Pryce

#27. Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Rich Burlew

#28. How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

Joseph Campbell

#29. Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.

James Richardson

#30. 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

#31. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Toni Servillo

#33. Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his heart. Meditation is also similar to the dancer. You need not reach anyplace, you have to just delve deep in yourself to find the true self and be a Soul Searcher.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#34. There is no correct path. We pave our own roads. Don't be afraid to find your own way.
... I hate to see people hung up on "what they're supposed to do". Decide for yourself. There is no other way

Alex Gaskarth

#35. When you can't find the answers inside yourself God will lead you to someone who does.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. Because when you've been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe in you.

Tellulah Darling

#37. James said you called yourself a nameless girl... Oh, nameless girl... When will you learn to trust me?"
I turned my hand over to find the Black Knife mask.
My heart tumbled and twisted. "You?" Tobiah was Black Knife?

Jodi Meadows

#38. There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

Marie Osmond

#39. If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.

Greg Behrendt

#40. I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#41. There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

Margot Robbie

#42. If you live in the twentieth century you do not find it hard to see yourself in those, more desperate than yourself, who seek to shape it to their will.

Salman Rushdie

#43. Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility.

Jessica Livingston

#44. Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'

Dave Barry

#45. If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

Confucius

#46. Force yourself to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. A being causes his own feelings. Splurge on it!

L. Ron Hubbard

#47. You must always, always tell the truth. If you are mad, say so. If someone asks you anything, try to find the exact words to describe what you have to say. If you try to tell the exact truth, always, you will ground yourself, become yourself. The truth connects you. It hooks you back up.

George Hodgman

#48. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

Eckhart Tolle

#49. The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. - Annie Dillard

Austin Kleon

#50. Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

Wallace D. Wattles

#51. Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#52. I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!

Jon David Erickson

#53. Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

William Shakespeare

#54. I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.

Katherine Heigl

#55. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

#56. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.

Miya Yamanouchi

#57. I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Trent Reznor

#58. The journey to find yourself lies within your dreams, for there you will be shown your truth.

Patrick Neal

#59. Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

#60. Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?

Thomas Pynchon

#61. Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Burt Reynolds

#62. To sought out solace within yourself is the most difficult challenge and is quickly ignored by many, thus can only be achieved when you find truth within oneself

Yolanda De Iuliis

#63. People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Richard Simmons

#64. If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality!

Eric Thomas

#65. I hate doctors! They'll do anything ... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

Eugene O'Neill

#66. You don't need a crown to be a Princess. You don't even need a Prince. You just have to believe that you deserve to be treated like one. You have to believe in yourself and exude confidence without conceitedness, and once you do, your Prince will find you.

Ella Dominguez

#67. The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.

Ned Vizzini

#68. The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.

Marion Roach Smith

#69. I laughed. "I don't care if you're nice or not. I just want you to be you. No more pretending. I think it's time we all got to know the real Logan Lyke."
"What if I don't know who the real me is?" he asked.
"Then I guess you better find yourself," I smiled.

Micalea Smeltzer

#70. I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Richard Linklater

#71. Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.

Max McKeown

#72. Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.

Michael A. Singer

#73. If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

Jessye Norman

#74. Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Lena Olin

#75. May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

#76. I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

William Jackson

#77. Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Benjamin Franklin

#78. You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

Barry Long

#79. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Richard Adams

#80. If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else.

Miya Yamanouchi

#81. Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.

Djimon Hounsou

#82. Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

Oswald Chambers

#83. If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George Edward Woodberry

#84. How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

Eckhart Tolle

#85. It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

Lee Unkrich

#86. In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#87. Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

Bethany Cosentino

#88. No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

#89. I think this man realized how important it is for you to love yourself, to find your self-worth. Those who truly love you don't just stop when you hurt them." Keeley's

Lora Ann

#90. If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

Aaron Neville

#91. You Don't need anyone to live a full life, You just need to find yourself!

J.Ghorbani

#92. surrounding yourself with what makes you laugh. Be intentional about hanging out with people you find amusing. Make a point to immerse yourself in media that generates positivity. Start conversations with people who smile a lot. Do something that makes you feel like yourself. You

Tom Shepherd

#93. Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
To everyone, I pray.
And may I ask you how you find
Yourself, dear Lord, today?

John B. Tabb

#94. No matter what, you shall have a reason for action because of whom and what is closer to you and where you find yourself.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#95. When you try hard to find happiness for other, you will unknowingly find yourself on the island of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#96. I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

Deniz Gamze Erguven

#97. Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Nora Ephron

#98. The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

Yo-Yo Ma

#99. I lost you
when you left me
to find yourself.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#100. Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!

Narendra Modi