Top 1200 Not Being Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Bringing your intimate relationship into the public arena and yet not being able to express yourself freely can really suffocate you.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.

You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental focus towards mastery in every area of your life. It is about commiting yourself, from the core of your heart, to manifest and polish your highest talents and become the person you are destined to be.

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

Surround yourself with positive messages, inspire yourself on a daily basis, and come to grips with your own power of determination. Then you will become unstoppable in achieving positive life changes for yourself and your family.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold.

Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn't react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

When you walk into the presence of people who calibrate at the very highest energy levels, just being in their energy field, everything that is diseased or in disharmony is healed. When you bring a higher and a more loving energy to the presence of disorder or disharmony or disease, you are really bringing a healing energy. And that's what healing is involved with: It's no longer allowing yourself to wallow around in a process in which you tell yourself that you don't have the capacity to be able to transcend whatever it is that's bothering you or hurting you or killing you.

I'm being called 'Messi with gloves?' I think he's had a great level over many years. You shouldn't compare yourself with that.

Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Some believe that to be authentic, you have to present yourself the same way in every situation. At first thought, this notion seems reasonable, but when you really think about it - not so much. The way you interact with your boss is not the same way you need to interact with your family, peers, team members, or clients. It is not only okay to present yourself differently in various situations but crucial to being perceived as authentic.

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

I don't give up; I go down fighting in everything I do - being a mother, being a wife, being a wrestler, being a Marine, being a sister.

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.