Top 1200 Proud Of Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.

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

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.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

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

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.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

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.

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.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

The biggest challenge is learning how to psych yourself up into believing in yourself as you walk into the Octagon.

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

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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

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

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

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

You have to be able to compete, put yourself out there, make yourself vulnerable, to go for something that you want.

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.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

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.

We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure that the creators were happy with the film Death Note and that their voices were heard. I felt, if the creators were proud and happy with the film, then in turn, the fans would be proud and happy with the film because the creators know the fan base, inside and out.

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.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

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

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

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.

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

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

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

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