Top 1200 Being Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How much integrity do you have? Do a moral inventory of yourself. Hold yourself accountable going forward for what you say and do. Moving toward a more faithful, fair, and honest life begins with confronting truthfully who you are. You can't hold yourself accountable if you won't see yourself clearly.

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

America's seen me go from Olympic glory to 'Biggest Loser'. I want to go back to Olympic glory again. It's kind of the American way, rebuilding yourself and remodeling yourself and making yourself more of who you are.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

Don't spend another minute being angry about yesterday, free him, and you free yourself.

It is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right things, being honest with you.

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.

Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.

Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Authenticity doesn't just mean you're not filtering what you're saying, it's about being able to know and access the best parts of yourself and bring them forward.

With everything, especially romantic relationships, you have to protect your heart. That doesn't mean you can't show up and be able to give this person a piece of you and be open to being yourself.

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain - even if only momentarily - a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.

Being in your 30s is about discovering yourself and your body and enjoying who you are.

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. You just can't stop being an artist.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.

The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.

When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.

And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

I've always thought one of the tricks of being an actor for a long time is keeping yourself interested once you've figured out how to pay the rent.

If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.