Top 1200 Proving Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God’s very own creation.

The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all about mirroring.

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.

There is no doubt that we are in crisis at this moment in our history. Most of this comes from our individualistic mind-set. And it is bringing us to the brink of extinction on many levels, but I think there are methods we can use to go beyond our individual beliefs. The main thing is to honor the relationship above being right or proving somebody wrong.

If you can't laugh at yourself or take any type of criticism or comment about yourself, I think it's more of a reflection of you.

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

If you keep a healthy state of mind, you give yourself a great chance to bring out the best in yourself.

You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.

The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.

If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

There is no need to drag yourself through life, let go of the struggle & give yourself the time & love to find balance.

If you want to surround yourself with a lot of people and be pampered then that is a decision you make yourself. Personally I don't do it and I don't feel the need to do it.

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

I've always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

The biggest problem for me is that if you are in the race you can't develop yourself to try and educate yourself and this is what I loved in my break from football.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.

Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.

You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.

I think that it's important to take time for yourself and to make sure to have those real moments when you're in bed at night, when you're with yourself.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.