Top 1200 Put Yourself First Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

You don't have to put yourself under pressure, you don't have to be fit even before your body is fit.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

We didn't do training in grappling for Chiesa; I was about to put the hands on him, put the elbows on him, put the knees on him, put the hurt on him the way I'd trained for.

Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I said. She raised an eyebrow. “It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn’t you?” Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. “Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?” She rolled her eyes. “No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

1973 was the first gasoline crisis in the world. That year, I designed the first aerodynamic truck, eating 40 percent less fuel. I put it on exhibit everywhere. It was 30 years ahead of its time. Nobody is building it today, and everybody still has problems with their boxy cars and trucks eating up fuel.

When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

I've always put my career first, and it has been difficult on my personal life.

I was first inspired to make music by my cousin Oran. He was making music on an old Mac II by himself in his little lab, and I just started taking up after him. He was the first person to put a machine in front of me to work on. He was like my big brother, someone who I looked up to.

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

I can open the floor for other guys. I've always put the team first.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

I was in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.

When I was a kid, you know, the Playskool plastic courts that were white backboard, blue base that you put water in and the rim was dunk breakaway. That was one of the first gifts that I actually remember - only because I broke it the first day I got it. So that sticks out in my head a lot. It's one of the best gifts I ever got as a child.

The more you watch yourself play, the more mistakes you put right.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

I think you should never put boundaries on yourself. You should always want to grow.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.

I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.

I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn.

I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

As a competitor, you're always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.