Top 1200 Understanding Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

It's OK to be hard on yourself, just know you have another chance to go out and prove yourself again.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

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?

When you love yourself and are able to indulge in yourself, and you're grounded in your 'yes' or 'no,' it's nothing to ask a guy on a date.

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 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.

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

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.

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

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

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

Always know that if you’re not happy with yourself, no one else can change that, no girl or guy, no amount of money; only yourself.

You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.

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

You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?

Believe in yourself. Tell yourself everyday "I am a talented person with a wonderful gift to give others!"

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

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.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested in trivia; he does not put any energy at all into petty things. So whenever the time arises to give, he has to give. Energy is understanding. Be conscious of it and use your energy very consciously, and use your energy in such a way that you don't simply go on wasting it.

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.

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

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

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

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

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.

We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

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

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

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.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

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