Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.
Irish Proverb
Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
Sri Chinmoy
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Oprah Winfrey
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
Oprah Winfrey
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
Do not compete with anyone except yourself.
Charles Garfield
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Lawana Blackwell
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
Janis Joplin
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Frederick Warren
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
Horace Mann
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace Mann
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
Sir George Savile
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi Minh
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence Sterne
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.
Michael Jordan
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Michel de Montaigne
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer.
Douglas Adams
There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Deepak Chopra
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Lewis Carroll
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John Ruskin
If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?
Tiger Woods
The key in shooting any good round is to give yourself some chances and, tomorrow, if my swinging is feeling any good, I'll have some chances. But, if it's not, then I'll have to give myself those 15 to 20 footers and hope I can make those.
Tiger Woods
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
Vernon Howard
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
Lois McMaster Bujold
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
'Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?' 'That's true.' 'Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?' 'That's true.' 'Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?' 'That's true.' 'What does your doctor say about all of this?' 'My doctor is dead.'
George F. Burns
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Vernon Howard
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas H. Huxley
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Vernon Howard
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas H. Huxley
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Ralph Marston
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself.
Jamaican Proverb
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Margaret Cho
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
C. S. Lewis
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hannah Arendt
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo
The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.
Dave Pelzer
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear.
Real Live Preacher
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
Bill Hicks
You have proved yourself as an unqualified person by showing loyalty to the ruling alliance and any EC under your leadership will not be able to hold a free and fair election.
Dr Kamal Hossain
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein
The game is evolving. If you're not willing to change and make your game more well-rounded, you're going to find yourself on the outside looking in.
Chris Dingman
There is only one way to retaliate, and that involves shooting yourself in the foot.
Michael Hart
If I was Nel I'd be embarrassed. Look in the mirror and ask yourself a few questions.
Alec Stewart
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Maxwell Maltz
It was tough, there was no silver spoon in the mouth. I did a five-year apprenticeship starting at 14. You have to prove yourself. They throw you a bit of meat on the bone and if you handle it you go on.
Douglas Whyte
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
There are always going to be critics sniping from the side. It's never been my way to focus on that -- you have to focus on the positive and trust yourself.
Jessica Rowe
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
...it's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself not for everyone else....
Mariska Hargitay
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Gillian Anderson
Don't allow yourself to get into a condition where you are not able to defend yourself. This is not a safe world. You are not safe in an Internet chat room and you are not safe on an exotic island with your friends.
Beth Twitty
There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course.
L. Ron Hubbard
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
James Franco
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfour
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Winston Churchill pointed out another attribute of good rhetoric: it is sincere. You must yourself really be against the Germans buzz-bombing London before you can persuade the English people it is a rotten notion.
Kerry Thornley
You can hook into the ice and kick your feet to try to get level with the surface to try to work your way out, ... But you're contending with hypothermia, you're contending with your clothes getting waterlogged. You've got a precious few minutes to work yourself back up on top of the ice before you're in big trouble.
Mark Pearce
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Saint Augustine
All the silly rules that people have about eating need to be let go. Developing is the key word. You have to develop skills to cope with the impressionable images from the media, so you can learn how to take care of yourself properly. It takes time and patience, and there are a few bumps along the way.
Patrice Barber
You don't want to beat yourself. We're a young team. But we're a team with a lot of potential. I've seen it. I think the girls see. We just have to believe it.
Roosevelt Newell
You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
In law enforcement, there's a time when you have to disassociate yourself from tragedy because if you can't, it'll destroy you, ... There's a point in an investigation where you're still working on it, but you have to keep things in perspective or you won't make it to retirement.
Patrick Lynch
Take heednever take advantage of the things you neednever let yourself be overcome by greedwalk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed.
Peter Shaggy
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew Barrymore
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Norman Mailer
We've got to remain on target and take care of detail, but at the same time you can't expend yourself at practices and not have anything left for the weekend.
Don Cahoon
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Joel Hawes
It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
Jakob Dylan
If the side effects of an antidepressant drug are hallucinations telling you to kill yourself, there is something wrong with that pill or drug.
Randolph Gordon
You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.
Harold Sherman
I think you get great strength from hearing from others and knowing that you're not by yourself.
Lana Thompson
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Thomas L. Masson
Baby boomers have an inaccurate and pessimistic view of aging. So much of it is in your hands and how you take care of yourself.
Thomas Perls
I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.
Meredith Grey
Put yourself in the shoes of a victim of a very traumatic crime, ... I don't think this increases their confidence in the system.
Mark Larson
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."
Anthony Lake
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christine Bovee
Please. Please. I'm just asking you to turn yourself in.
Laura Fleming
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell
People have overlooked the advantages of being a heroin addict. Heroin addicts have no difficult, challenging, hard-to-solve problems. Heroin addicts only have one problem. If you'll just get yourself addicted to crack, you won't have any problems.
Richard Schuldenfrei
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preacher
Ask yourself if you would feel reassured leaving your loved one there. And then visit again. Make a second visit without an appointment, maybe on another day of the week or time of day. See if your first thoughts are still the same.
Andrew B. Crocker
He was a real family man. Every Sunday he would cook up this big feast over at his house, and my wife and I would come over for dinner. His daughters were taking dance lessons, and he used to go to all the recitals. He was the type of guy who would make you feel good about yourself. You always got the sense that he was on your side.
Glenn Kroll
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
William Frederick Book
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences) worth writing about.
Bette Greene
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