Top 1200 Yourself Short Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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

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?

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

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

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.

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

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.

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

I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

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

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.

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

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

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

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

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

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.

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

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

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

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

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.

It's all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.

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

That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In principle the government is supposed to make regulations that help the economy over time. But once it's taken over by the financial sector, the government lives in the short run too.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

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

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

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

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

I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

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

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

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

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

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.

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.

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

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.