Top 1200 Inspirations Being Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Street football means you don't fear no one because you have nothing to lose and you are just being yourself.

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

Being really competitive, you're hard on yourself when you make a mistake, but then you've got to push on.

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different [and] then have two stories mix together.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

It's not being bad; it's about trying to find yourself. It's strange how people take you.

You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce. She's like number 1 right now because I love everything about her. Her fashion, her style, her attitude when it comes to singing. She's perfect.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’ until you relate it to the body. The body is a component in design just as air and space are. Like line, form, and color, the body is a material to work with. It is one of the basic inspirations in creating form.

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

I was new, and it was like that movie "Mean Girls". This clique would tease me and make up rumors about me being gay. I don't even know why they did it. I came home crying one day and told my mom I couldn't be around them anymore. So we decided I would be homeschooled. I think it's important to check in with yourself and make sure you are being exactly who you want to be. When I am true to who I am, I'm a better girfriend. I'm just more happy being me.

You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.

That's the great thing about being an all-rounder. You can impose yourself on the game with bat and ball.

I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

One of the biggest inspirations before I started shooting came from my brother, when he texted me and said, 'Hey, fatty, it's called 'The Hunger Games', not 'The Eating Games'. So I started working out a lot more and eating a lot less.

Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

I think the most important is believing in yourself and being passionate about everything you do in life.

Being positive and believing in yourself is important, not only in football but also in improving as a person.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.