Top 1200 Promises To Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't [be in].

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That's still what you're worried about. That you'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you'll make a fool of yourself.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.

All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you take yourself to be.'

You have to define growth to yourself. If you ask yourself what you want, and if the answers are big, then you have to work towards it.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.

If you take care of yourself and try to look nice, it's reflective of how you feel about yourself.

You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time.

You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

Forgive yourself for believing things about yourself that are not true. Forgive yourself for believing that you were anything other than a child of God. Then, after forgiving yourself for believing the things you were told, forgive the people who told you. Forgive them not for what they said or did. Forgive them because they did not know any better.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

You have to be nice to people, you have to give the best of yourself every moment of your life, and you have to believe in yourself.

Just witness yourself with your human part and hold yourself with love, if you can, or at least acceptance.

When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you'll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.