Jim Rohn
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Jim Rohn
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl SaganTo survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
George Orwell
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Johnny Depp
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Brian Tracy
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James Dean
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.
Jeff Foxworthy
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Epicurus
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
