Top 1200 Inspirations Being Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If you can allow yourself to do more good with your creativity by being successful, then that's a great thing.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

I love being online because I feel like you can just be yourself and it's so easy to open up.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.

I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

I think the key to poker is being steady and giving yourself a chance to win every tournament.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

Overall the theme is about never giving in... not letting anyone tell you what to do or take anything away from you. Always being yourself, whatever that may be. The content obviously takes a darker and romantic approach to relationships about love and loss, as well as overcoming adversity in everyday life. Generally, just being tough and standing up for what you believe.

Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free to develop our own hypotheses, which should be based in available evidence. When it comes to faith, have faith in yourself. And don't forget to love, laugh, be kind to each other. Don't take things so seriously, especially yourself. If the universe is a cosmic joke, remember to giggle. And remember to be astonished.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, "How amazing would it be to just drag all these mirrors out there?" A lot of times I do things as an impulse and find out my inspirations afterward. Even with songs and lyrics, it can take me years to find out what I was actually trying to do.

You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.

I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity and personhood is so important.I feel inspired by people around me who are part of this movement as well: Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard and Willow Smith and these kids who are really not going to listen to anyone. "I'm just going to say whatever I feel. I'm going to be myself. And if you don't like it, then, you can go screw yourself."

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

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

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

In all aspects of life, it's always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.

What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

If you've been preached to, if you've been educated, if you've been raised to believe that America is the most racist, the most disgustingly vile nation in the history of the world, and you are white, then you can inoculate yourself. You can immunize yourself from being associated with that aspect of American history because you are white, by becoming anti-American, anti-this and anti-that.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.