Top 100 You Yourself Quotes
#1. You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
Daryl Hall
#6. Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
Jan Hus
#8. Sexual agency is about being able to define your sexuality by the decisions you yourself make, and NOT by the perceptions, expectations or opinions of others.
Miya Yamanouchi
#9. Revere the unity of all-that-is
carry out your daily activities with compassion;
if you do not limit your compassion,
you yourself will not be limited.
Lao-Tzu
#10. You cannot afford to suggest to another person, by word of mouth or in writing, or through any act, that which you yourself do not believe.
Napoleon Hill
#11. If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.
Ole Hallesby
#12. Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that you yourself are subject to the same and greater sins and passions, pray for them and be meek with them.
John Of Kronstadt
#13. If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
Thomas Merton
#14. When we open ourselves
you yourself to me and I myself to you,
when we submerge
you into me and I into you
when we vanish
into me you and into you I
Then
am I me
and you are you.
Bernhard Schlink
#15. As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'
Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
Agatha Christie
#16. May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which now divert you from better pursuits!
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#17. Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Christopher Morley
#19. It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
Philip K. Dick
#20. In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.
Sam Altman
#21. Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to the greed of others. And as long as nothing satisfies you, you yourself cannot satisfy others.
Seneca.
#22. I ... you mean me?"
"Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#23. Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
Khalil Gibran
#24. When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.
Eric Whitacre
#25. He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Isaac Asimov
#26. You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
Bram Stoker
#27. you, yourself are the only one you answer to, so you better make the argument a good one!
Tracy Lee
#28. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.
Rokia Traore
#31. Today, tomorrow, sooner or later, you will meet someone who is lost, just as you yourself have been lost, and as you will be lost again someday. And when that happens, it is your duty to say I've been lost, too. Let me help you find your way home.
Katherine Applegate
#32. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
Jay Crownover
#33. You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
Seamus Heaney
#34. What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
Rene Burri
#35. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Sarah McLachlan
#36. Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
Regina Spektor
#37. The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself.
Miya Yamanouchi
#38. When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
Randall Jarrell
#39. There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that ... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
Barbara Kingsolver
#40. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Annie Dillard
#41. Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.
Neville Goddard
#42. You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
Marianne Williamson
#43. You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
Gautama Buddha
#44. The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.
Lee Iacocca
#46. What you feel for me, is it caused by your vampirism, or do you yourself feel that way? Because, I mean, I guess I AM, technically, like a walking hamburger. Who wouldn't want a free meal? I asked tentatively.
J.L. McCoy
#47. Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
Peter Drucker
#48. Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
#49. You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.
Origen
#50. You yourself told us that in the final analysis we are our own betrayers, playing Judas to our own Christ
Azar Nafisi
#51. Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
Thomas Merton
#52. Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.
Mo
#53. If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.
Horace
#54. When you are offended at any man's fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred:
Marcus Aurelius
#55. They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Zadie Smith
#56. God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
Joseph Campbell
#57. you can pass a football,you can gas,but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed
Wendy Wunder
#58. You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit
Edward W. Said
#59. There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
Rumi
#60. If your instigations stop, then there will not be anyone to instigate you. All these are indeed the results of your own [past] instigations. 'You' are a King of the whole universe. 'You' do not indeed have anyone above you (as a boss, upari). 'You', yourself are the Parmatma (absolute supreme Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#61. Do you think it's right to not say goodbye to the man you yourself said was on the very first page of your very first volume of your diary? This is the very last page of his.
Yasunari Kawabata
#62. Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up ...
Arthur Schopenhauer
#63. The mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear, as you yourself do at dawn, sailing through the light.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#64. It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M.F.K. Fisher
#65. You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify - and burn.
Rene Char
#66. Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo.
Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.
Rajneesh
#67. Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
Roger Zelazny
#68. You yourself must endure the painful process of change. There is much more at work here than your instant maturity. God wants to build a relationship with you that is based on faith and trust and not on glamorous miracles.
Gene Edwards
#69. Choose to live and choose to love;
choose to rise above and give back
what you yourself were given.
Gilgamesh
#70. Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.
Marianne Williamson
#71. You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Mary Renault
#72. A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
Daisaku Ikeda
#73. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#74. Whenever your foundational beliefs about the goodness and justice of God are examined, and the answers produced are not what you yourself have believed about God, there will be an emotional reaction.
Thomas F. Booher
#75. Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew ... without even thinking about it.
Alan Watts
#76. If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
Ed Koch
#77. Preaching is asking people to do what you yourself failed to do and expect they fail so that you can come back and preach at them the next day
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#78. Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.
Stephen Potter
#79. Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre Gide
#80. The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]
Watchman Nee
#81. I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?
Jack White
#82. and if you run off down the long streets in the way you are doing - then for this evening, you have broken utterly from your family, who fade away into insubstantiality, while you yourself, absolutely solid, black and clear-cut, slapping your thighs, rise and assume your true form.
Franz Kafka
#83. Your greatest challenge is what you yourself bring to the platform each and every Sunday.
Bob Kauflin
#84. Putting people in their place shows that you yourself have nowhere to go.
Richard Krause
#85. Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!
Josemaria Escriva
#86. As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. No one can take better care of you than you yourself.
Lois P Frankel
#88. Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.
Rumi
#89. God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
Saint Augustine
#90. There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so - so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don't know how or on what it was spent.
Emily Post
#91. Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Susannah McCorkle
#92. One should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.
Alexander McCall Smith
#93. And when you provide love and compassion to your brothers and sisters, you yourself, are manifesting God. When you come to understand that our bodies are nurtured by food and rest, but our spirits and souls are nurtured by experiencing love and compassion, then you come to understand and know God.
Nick Bunick
#94. The consequences of karma are definite: Negative actions always bring about suffering, and positive actions always bring happiness. If you do good, you will have happiness; if you do bad, you yourself suffer.
Dalai Lama XIV
#95. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#96. Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light?
Ramakrishna
#97. The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that. "I am worried," I told Douglass.
Atul Gawande
#98. Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit
#99. A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
Ogden Nash
#100. When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.
Michio Kushi