Top 1200 Understanding Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

I just want to show people that the best thing you could ever do for yourself is be yourself.

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.

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.

Surround yourself with good people who support and love you. And have confidence in yourself and your abilities!

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

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.'

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

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

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them 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 can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

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

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

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

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

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

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

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

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.

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

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

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

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

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

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

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

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

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

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

Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others... love yourself and you will be loved.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

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