Quotation Explorer - 'Ours'

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

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda

Catch my heart and take my Hand to find yourself some Big Time Love. - Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life. - Anonymous

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain. - Angelica Hopes

Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours. - Nadair Desmar

Never forget to smile and appreciate yourself. - Debasish Mridha

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want? - Unarine Ramaru

Search the truth for yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

This is what works for me: I practise crop rotation with my creative endeavours. I’ve found that when the nitrogen runs out in the soil in one field, it’s best to leave it fallow for a while and cultivate another. - Andrew Macrae

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown

To understand God, is to Love Him. You can't say you love God if you don't know Him. First you must know yourself, to experience God, then you will know Him for who He really is. - ELW-Reta Barnes

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. - Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind. - Allan Wesler

To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours. - Radhika Mundra

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool. - Jane Wagner

Never forget why you should win or achieve your goals and dreams. Once you feel you are losing purpose in the process, remind yourself why you saw the need to begin in the first place, let that drive you. - Unarine Ramaru

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. - Sidney Madwed

So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. - Charles Frazier

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them. - Stacy London

All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together. - Daniel Quinn

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's. - American Proverb

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. - Brian Tracy

Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: "You want to be happy or you want to be right? - Aditya Ajmera

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself. - Bryant McGillns

If you won't improve yourself, who will? - Radhe Maa

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones. - Arthur Rackham

Few of us have reached such impasses to claim ourselves to be almighty; as of yet I am not one of the few. Knowing this though sets me apart from the two sides of the many. - James Emlund

We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there. - Eli Siegel

I think you’re just as emotionally unavailable as I am. I avoid men because I’m afraid I’ll lose my heart, and you go from girl to girl to keep from giving yours away. - Ann Everett

You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things. - Auliq Ice

Give your life purpose and focus. Position yourself to succeed - Karon Waddell

The best way to be you is to be yourself. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you. - Abhijit Naskar

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware anger is contagious...Don't allow other's anger to become yours - Prabakaran Thirumalai

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours. - Albert Camus

Give yourself to a great cause, not only your possessions. - Debasish Mridha

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. - Rick Warren

We, hurt by ourselves, keento be hurters and keento be hurt back deep inside.We, like weapons laidbeside anger asleep. - Rainer Maria Rilke

There are just two directions in life, the one which is safe but boring, and the other which is delicate but exciting. Now ask yourself, which path will you go? - Joe Mari Fadrigalan

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher

Solara: I didn't think you'd ever give up the book, I thought it was too important to youEli: It was, I was carrying and reading it everyday, got so caught up in protecting it, I forgot to live by what I'd learnt from itSolara: And what's that?Eli: To do more for others than you do for yourself - Book of Eli Movie

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action. - Alan Cole

If you can't love yourself, how can you love others? - Debasish Mridha

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. - Kamand Kojouri

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

No matter how successful you are, you have to keep improving yourself. Otherwise, you will get stuck in what was once considered modern. Today, you can't solve iPad problems with typewriter knowledge and in the years to come, we shall look at the iPad and say how come we were so excited about that. - Damilola Oluwatoyinbo

Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be. - D.R. Silva

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton

If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself. - Kemi Sogunle

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? - Jane Austen

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. - Lawrence Sterne

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. - Ellen DeGeneres

When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

There is never another one of you in exactly the same spot you are in right now, so give yourself a break and release blame from the past so you can be free to move around the future!! - Monika Zands

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves - John Geddes

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course. - Ryan Lilly

The essence of leadership is not to portray yourself as some sort of know-it-all, but your ability to develop the people you are working with so they themselves can take the initiative and do the organizational drive. - Pat Chambers

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy. - Jim Henson

Everybody must work even if you are not working for money. You must work to actualize yourself. - Sunday Adelaja

It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. - Billy Joel

if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: I want to live a life like everybody else! By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability. - Derric Yuh Ndim

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one. - Kurt Vonnegut

Here’s what's breaking into my imagination and whatever is in there; that you are not afraid you’ve seen, is yours to take. - Omar Gamal Said

For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours. - Silas Sparkhammer

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else? - Teresa Mummert

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. - Cicero

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change. - Dana Gore

You win some, you lose some, let Karma takes its course… - - - Cocoy McCoy

Once you start impressing yourself you will impress the world. - Casey King, Fingerlike

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today. - Rollo Romig

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive. - Jean-Louis Gassee

I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the hands of those who have undertaken to trail our Flag in the dust. Signed, Yours as Ever, Franklin M. Haven. - Franklin Marion Havens

You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darling but I want ya too if I let you knoooowww Im here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh - Niall Horan

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Remember, you are training your mind. You are either training to look for things to go wrong or you are training it to look for anything to go right. Train yourself to think only positive thoughts. - Karon Waddell

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself. - Lacey Sturm

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not. - Vironika Tugaleva

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. - Metallica

Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others. - Alamvusha

You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom your teachers,seekers like yourself, and the studentswho question your answer. - Shmuel HaNagid

Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered - Virginia Woolf

Surround yourself with positive people. - Roy Bennett

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves. - Rita Hayworth

It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary. - Mandy Hale

Do no drown me with mediocrity, give me passion, desire, make me inhale breaths of lust and love in the dark hours that tingle down my spine... - Virginia Alison

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. - Jimmy Dean

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them. - Amit Kalantri

Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. - Jon Acuff

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. - Saint Teresa of Avila

You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.

When you learn to love yourself, you teach those around to love themselves. And that will be what changes our world. - Eileen Anglin

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon - Po Bronson

Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. - Sophocles

When you love yourself, you teach those around you how to love themselves. That love will change the world into what it was intended to be. - Eileen Anglin

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. - Hugh MacLeod

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

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius

Below the surface I lie dreaming,haunting images, in all colours and black.Sunlit sometimes there is no sun there.I keep the dream below the surface,the cracked mask absolute. - Wynand de Beer

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication into excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy doing the process. - Mark F. LaMoure

When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self-motivated! - Stephanie Lahart

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - Sir Edmund Hillary

Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see. - Elizabeth Lomeli

They want us to cower in fear, to strengthen their stranglehold on us by silencing ourselves. - DaShanne Stokes

We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos. - Carl Sagan

The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams. - Gary Patton

When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work. - Michael Harris

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. - Roderick Evans

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours. - Samael Aun Weor

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion! - Mehmet Murat ildan

To forgive others, you must forgive yourself first. - Debasish Mridha

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all. - Lisa Tawn Bergren

The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. – Jessica Willis - The Willis Clan

If a man seeks you to understand him; listen closely, for what is really going on is nothing more that you manifesting your desire to seek yourself on a plateau of awareness that is not tangible - Jeremy Aldana

If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever. - Debasish Mridha

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo. - William Blake

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God. - Shannon L. Alder

If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else. - Miya Yamanouchi

Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself. - Draya Mooney

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities - Henry B. Eyring

...but we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don't have...As soon as you realize it's a thought pattern, you can write yourself a restraining order. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

Maybe we're all ongoing stories, defined at various stages of life, or whenever people oblige us to declare ourselves. Fiction is marvelous for studying this, allowing the writer and reader to leap decades in a sentence. No other art lets you bend time as much. - Tom Rachman

Find yourself, and once you do never let go - Coach Cassandra

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

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

Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are. - Jaeda DeWalt

Define yourself; you have the monopoly on your life’s dictionary. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We must be willing to fall flat on our faces. Fearlessly putting ourselves out there is simply a required part of the process. At the very least, it results in the gift of humility and, at best, the triumph of our human spirit. - Jill Badonsky

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose. ~ Eragon - Christopher Paolini

For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely grief. - Marcel Proust

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you. - Karen Salmansohn

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. - Calvin Coolidge

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are. - Sarah van Waterschoot

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. - William Shakespeare

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. - George Lucas

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. - Henry Cloud

Attends-toi à l'inattendu!" Voilà comment je peux concilier ma crainte de catastrophe réelle avec mon espoir, que je maintiens toujours, envers et contre tout. - Edgar Morin

It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential. - Debasish Mridha

To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society. - Debasish Mridha

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. - Seamus Heaney

I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. - Ayn Rand

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again. - The Weeknd

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be. - Erik Tomblin

Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with each step strengthen yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of your elders, so that whatever next happens, you can survive and not lose your rhythm. - Red Haircrow

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. - Neale Donald Walsch

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment.. Live the life. - Jerril Thomas Abraham

The pressures of business relationships: so I tell the guy I usually have my tea time at 10 o’clock every morning. He calls me at noon (very upset) because I didn’t meet him on the golf course. - Eric Christopher Jackson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. - Judy Garland

I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is important to me. I will hold my course steady and my God will help me see it through. This is my promise, my anthem and my path. This is my future and I own it. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost. - Kellie Elmore

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.E. Cummings

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny. - Heraclitus

I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout's honor, pinky promise.I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion I'm having, and of course, it is failing to a fault.I'm still sad, I'm still mad, I'm still heartbroken, I miss you. - Elizabeth Brooks

You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life. - Debasish Mridha

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

...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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. - J. K. Rowling

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart. - Saul Bellow

Be compassionate and kind to yourself and everyone around you. - Debasish Mridha

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. - Kevin James Breaux

..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: - William Wordsworth

You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. - Ilyas Kassam

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you. - John Green

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins. - David W. Earle

Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity. - Kiera Cass

You are powerful, you are unique, you are a gift to yourself and others. - Akiroq Brost

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. - Dave Barry

The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free. - Deborah Day

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do. - Quintus Ennius

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it. - Roy Bennett

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly. - Joyce Meyer

Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love. - Jay Woodman

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem. - Oprah Winfrey

Being married means giving it your all to your spouse daily. Even when you don’t feel like it and even when it hurts. It means looking beyond yourself, and giving to them because they are a part of you. - marriage.com

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me... on that summer's day when my eyes were opened to the sea.

There comes a moment in life when you say to yourself – enough. This is ENOUGH! Then – you take a walk with your destiny. To change. To fulfill your purpose. We all have it. But are you willing to take that first step? - Besa Kosova

When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed. - Eraldo Banovac

All of us have hidden skills keep searching for yours - Mohammed Sekouty

Do not prove but be yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life. - Lynn A. Robinson

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. - Rainer Maria Rilke

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes. - Steve Goodier

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. - Madonna

Surround yourself with people who will believe in you, challenge you and encourage you. - Karim Camara

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. - James T. McCay

Do not judge me for the many things I do, but rather judge yourself for that which you do not. - George "GM64" Mercado

There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. - Amy Winehouse

I hate couples sitting together for hours and waiting for each other to kiss. - M.F. Moonzajer

We should not look for more in others,Rather find more within ourselves. - Morris R. Gates

We are what we allow ourselves to become. Never settle for less than what you deserve. Keep fighting the good fight! Keep giving your all to achieve, receive and succeed - Cecibel Contreras

Look too on this poor planet of ours,Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,Evil contending with good from its birth,Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,—Ah! what infinities circle us here,Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere! - Martin Farquhar Tupper

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles A. Beard

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. - Zig Ziglar

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions. - Gordon B. Hinckley

When you make yourself a better you, you inevitably make a better life for your family. That's the thing I'll always embrace and you should too. Better yourself. Enjoy your life. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. - Thomas Carlyle

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops. - George Saunders

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself - William Saroyan

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy

If you can't love yourself the world will only hate you. - Debasish Mridha

We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford to regret is regretting being ourselves - Hisham Fawzi

You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself. - Roy T. Bennett

If the mountain remains standing, it is useless to pray endlessly. God is waiting for you to do something yourself. - Sunday Adelaja

Believe in yourself.Carve your own path.Build your own dreams.Be your own hero. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not believe that you will get punished for the things you do. Just be honest to yourself and the people you love. - Poonam Dhandhania

Enjoy being with yourself, you will then not feel alone. - Steven Cuoco

In the course of our Journey we need to realize that we do not need to become anything, because we are already in possession of the characteristics that we have been looking for so far, pursuing an image projected into the future. - Frank Wanderer

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. - C.G. Jung

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself. - Katelyn S. Bolds

If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves. - Florence Williams

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. - T.K. Naliaka

You need to work on your attitude if you are experiencing the hatred. Because it is you yourself thinking about it - Bikash Bhandari

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves. - Benjamin Constant

In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself - Goitsemang Mvula

nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown - Alexandra Elle

Everything is blood and vines. The mark of another day of revolving the body exact And the sky is ours our hope our blue our silence our throat of burning wildflowers. - Gwen Calvo

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Have you ever been by yourself with no distractions? No radio, no TV, no internet, no mobile. Have you every been yourself in complete and utter silence? With no expectations and nothing else to do?Silence heals. - Ana Ortega

They say truth will set you free, it all depends whose truth we are talking about... yours or mine. - Maria Nieves

When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within. - Vert

Stop saying that you have done it for someone, Because never in your life you do things for other's, which means every single thing you do in your life, you do it only and only for yourself, even loving your child, even feeding you dog, you do it because you get something out of it. - Manish Kejriwal

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. - Adhish Mazumder

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. - Michael Bassey Johnson

We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves. - Debasish Mridha

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. - Eda J. LeShan

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? - Śāntideva

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too. - Kristin Martz

To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it. - Auliq Ice

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength. - Lao-Tzu

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves. - Danah Boyd

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act. - Bill Ayers

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle. - Michael D. Beil

if due to ego you think:i shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you. - Anonymous

... the Wisdom of God ... rules all things, because it is infinitely more powerful and more loving and, above all, more merciful than ours. - Father Jacques Philippe

It is impossible to find peace in the world if we can't create peace within ourselves. - Debasish Mridha

Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again. - J.W. Lord

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. - Brené Brown

Never be focused on yourself. - Sunday Adelaja

Surprise yourself everyday with the power of your love. Love endlessly and care profoundly to feel the joy of life deeply. - Debasish Mridha

There are times when you are home to yourself and you long for company. - Srividya Srinivasan

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. - C.G. Jung

Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours. - Shannon L. Alder

When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you. - Giridhar Alwar

Success is a choice; a promise that you make to yourself to keep moving forward. - Elizabeth Bourgeret

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. - W.B. Yeats

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Never forget to appreciate yourself and to reveal your own inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha

We ourselves are behaving in the Church as if we are afraid of the light, it should not be so. - Sunday Adelaja

You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on. - Toni Sorenson

Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times. You have captured my heart. It is yours. I am at your mercy now - Kamand Kojouri

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself. - James Finn Garner

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete. - Shannon L. Alder

The most important truth we tell is the truth we tell ourselves. - Tehya Sky

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm. - Agapi Stassinopoulos

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you. - Thomas a Kempis

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death. - Mehmet Murat ildan

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself. - David Halberstam

Beauty is a matter of perspective.Darling keep in mind that those standards that you’re trying so hard to meet were made by imperfect beings themselves. Love yourself more. - dandelionlady96

To find beauty all around you, fill yourself with self-love. - Debasish Mridha

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life. - Sunday Adelaja

Don't underestimate anyone, not even yourself. - Mohith Agadi

You must accept yourself for who you are, to become the person that you want to be. - Niat

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak. - Anne Rice

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - Henry Ward Beecher

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. - Viktor Frankl

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous. - Andrena Sawyer

There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself. - Roopleen

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now? - Richard Carlson

J'ai des papillons noirs tous les jours (I have black butterflies every day) - colloquial French expression for depression

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God. - Mother Teresa

When everything seems too far away from you, don’t despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world. - A.D. Posey

You are who you associate yourself with - Batya Maman Sabag

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Don’t fall in love because it is slippery, fall in love to find yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Never change yourself just because others don't accept you, the one who's destined for you will accept you the way you're; not that he doesn't find flaws, but it matters no more for he sees only the spark & magic in your eyes, making you feel special for the rest of your life! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Maybe you should've let God do the planning, rather than doing it yourself. - C.B. Cook

Love yourself.Love who you are. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. - Asa Gray

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage. - John C. Maxwell

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good. - Ali Vincent

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. - Stephen R. Covey

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience. No doubt about it. The family is the greatest and most important enterprise on earth. Lead yours with passion and joy! - Richie Norton

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. - Ayn Rand

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! - Friedrich Nietzsche

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves. - Yiyun Li

Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself. - Tony Curl

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. - Francis of Assisi

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - e e cummings

No earthly teacher is flawless. If you limit yourself to learning according to the exact mindset of the teacher, you will also inherit his flaws.

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown Author 909

To be yourself, be unique. - Debasish Mridha

Define your uniqueness to define yourself. - Debasish Mridha

From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole. - George Gaylord Simpson

All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. - L. Frank Baum

Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going. - Debasish Mridha

Wherever you travel to see beauty, you find yourself and your reflection again and again. - Debasish Mridha

It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action. - Vironika Tugaleva

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. - Mary Schmich

if you may edit, edit yourself - George Spirakis

Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don’t let the little snags affect the progress of your life. - RVM

The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves - Teresa Clyne

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself. - Stephen Richards

Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves... So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!

God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset. - Israelmore Ayivor

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm - Sunday Adelaja

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. - Norman Vincent Peale

I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves. - Franz Kafka

The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening. - Keysha Jade

Loyalty, trust, we both know those don’t exist toward others in our world. We prize ourselves above all others. To deny that would make you the biggest liar there is." - Marko Delacroix - Alaska Angleini (Lure (Marko Delacroix series))

Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life. - Nikki Rowe

Adapting doesn't mean changing yourself...... - Adil Adam Memon

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. - Douglas Adams

When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there. - Malcom McNeill

Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know? - Henry Miller

If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, What version of Christ does he believe in? - Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. - Richard M. Rorty

Bring your dreams into reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes to make your dreams come true. Start now and work with ambition for total success. Aim high and make it happen. - Mark F. LaMoure

I'll show you my theory, if you show me yours. - Fox Mulder

Instead of trying to hide yourself from the world, make it your signature trait. Make what most people think to be the worst of you become something your proud of. - Auliq Ice

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams. - Justina Chen

It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance. - Louisa Hall

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I’m sorry to say you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life. - Ali B. Moe

In your sky, you are the brightest star.Without you light, it’s dark like tar.So love yourself to enlighten others. - Debasish Mridha

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value. - Shannon L. Alder

Feel yourself climbing the mountain. - A.D. Posey

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

The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle. - Zephyr McIntyre

Life can be hard at times. People can be hard on each other. Being hard on yourself is completely unnecessary. - Ron Baratono

Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you; keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You have to accept all sides of yourself – there’s no point fighting them – just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through. - Jay Woodman

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget. - Jennifer Elisabeth

Vice...Virtue...It's not good to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me. - Charles Dickens

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. - Lee Jampolsky

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. - William Shakespeare

No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself. - Abhijit Naskar

Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life. - Roy T. Bennett

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. - Oswald Spengler

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have. - Andy Andrews

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' - Andre Gide

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none. - Yuval Noah Harari

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - David M. Burns

You can balance the unbalance. Once you believe the unbelievable.Then you will always be the best version of yourself. - Cass van Krah

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others. - Steven Manchesterchester

Why do we fall?So we can learn to pick ourselves back up. - Batman Begins

RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. - Ambrose Bierce

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley

Most of the things youfind yourself wantingwill have little or no bearingon the happiness in your life. - Domonique Bertolucci

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. - Joy Williams

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything. - Rita Levi-Montalcini

Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar - Jenny Erpenbeck

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway. "Shhh," I urged.I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that."Please don't," I choked. - Prince Maxon, "The One" by Kiera Cass

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. - C.S. Lewis

Don't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and use the chanceTo return to innocence.That's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocence. - Enigma

It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe in yourself even when others doubt your capabilities. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference - Paulo Coelho

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others? - Radhe Maa

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough. - Jean-Paul Sartre

One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself. - Robert Zeidan

An Important thing : never lie to yourself, for real... worst thing is when you lie to yourself, you just keep doing it and you don't know. - Nicky Kastrati

It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering - Valerie Tarico

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. - Steven Brust

Just like going to the moon made us learn more about earth, achieving your goals will make you learn more about yourself and get fascinated. - Samer Chidiac

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold. - Archibald MacLeish

There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most. - Shannon L. Alder

Excellence is a journey and a constant process. It is never a final destination. Have fun and enjoy it as a lifetime self-improvement program. Polish yourself for excellence. Glitter and sparkle for success. - Mark F. LaMoure

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity. - M.F. Moonzajer

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. - Douglas William Jerrold

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships. - Harshit Walia

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. - Walter Scott

Give yourself a break. Embrace and accept yourself for who YOU are. Love yourself and be kind to yourself. See the best in yourself! Be brave and have courage to be comfortable in your own skin. Knowing your self-worth is everything. - Stephanie Lahart

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop. - Alix

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Do not settle; open up yourself by surrendering to creating your own kind of success ALL THE WAY! Whether you have superior or less-than-average skills, you will cultivate your success story through determination and consistency. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself. - Vendela Vida

La scène dont tu vois n'est pas elle qui révèle toujours la vérité! Mais celle qui est cachée, retient toujours la vérité. - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! - Søren Kierkegaard

Start to Better Ourselves and Then the Global. - Jan Jansen

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day! - Mehmet Murat ildan

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours. - David Livingstone

When we can’t see ourselves in our history, we begin to think that we are disconnected and suffering alone. Historical ignorance always precedes cultural imbalances and individual despair. - Aurin Squire

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Express Yourself to Design your Life, you are here to "be you" not someone else... - luvic

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. - Charlotte Eriksson

To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world. - Vironika Tugaleva

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant. - Nic Sheff

You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold. - Charles R. Swindoll

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. - Colette

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... - Sophie Kinsella

As I have no form now, I will be recreated;into unknown new shapes, colours and forms distorted.the 'I' in me has faded, and passed on, to a distant land, - Drunken Mystic

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. - Epictetus

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself - Gary Hopkins

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks

So much of personal development and growth comes down to the decisions you make when you hit a wall. Do you spend your time feeling bad for yourself, or do you invest your time in continuing to build toward your dreams? - Andrea Goeglein

While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan

May the Blessingof Allah keep yoursHeart and HomeHappy and Joyous!!to get Bright Futurewish U Happy New Year !!! - Baset

We live in a world full of duplicity.We are surrounded by people with duplicitous nature.They will be shooting arrows to question our honesty at every step we make.Therefore,it is our duty to protect ourselves by using our integrity as an armor and march forward, victoriously. - Indy Bissessur

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings. - Unarine Ramaru

When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you want to live forever, give yourself away for others. - Debasish Mridha

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you better. - Seth Godin

Hate is a curved blade, and the harm that we do to others is also harm we do to ourselves. - Mitch Albom

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours. - Tami B Harriott

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt. - Steve Maraboli

May God give us much more grace to eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You have no enemy except yourself. - Debasish Mridha

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. - Henry Miller

She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you. - Angela Lam (Turpin)

If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changingcircumstances, see, what you will soon transform into. - Deep Trivedi

To change the world, change yourself first. - Debasish Mridha

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. - Iyanla Vanzant

If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted. - Gary Haugen

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies. - Serina Hernandez

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back. - A.D. Posey

It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step. - Auliq Ice

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in. - Nora Roberts

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be. - Elizabeth Scott

Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story. - Richie Norton

You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker. - Jazlyn Roehl

Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit your compassion,you yourself will not be limited. - Lao Tzu

Give away everything—even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are. - Debasish Mridha

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. - Marty Rubin

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. - Jean-Paul Sartre

All my life I have lived within the very hours of the hands of love. - Valentinno

Whatever path we take, the first step is to acknowledge the complexity of the dilemma and to accept that simplistically dividing the past into good guys and bad guys leads nowhere. Unless, of course, we are willing to admit that we usually follow the lead of the bad guys. - Yuval Noah Harari

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream. - Erich Maria Remarque

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine. - David B. Ramirez

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you. - José Luis Ruiz

When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, At least now I can see the stars. - Matshona Dhliwayo

For life to work for you, you must equip yourself with the power of change. - Sunday Adelaja

We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren’t favorable. - Toni Sorenson

If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.- - Suzanne Steele

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. - Rob Thurman

You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s your life, live it in whatever way is best for you. - Elle Sommer

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about. - Michael Meade

Your thoughts make what happen in your life~You can turn anything negative into the positive~What you visualize can come true and you attract it to yourself - Pattimari Sheets-Diamond

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer

Lying is an art, if you can convince yourself with lie, then you are a master. - Nikhil Yadav

Love worth giving is love perfected on ourselves. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

i see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels. - Nikki Rowe

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they’d have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive. - Geoffrey Wood

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed. - Matshona Dhliwayo

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile. - Hermann Hesse

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy] - Abraham Lincoln

Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; ‘yesterday’ is just a word, not a dictionary. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him. - Melissa Bank

I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself. - Lionel Suggs

You can never learn to be strong if you have not fallen and got up by yourself. - Auliq Ice

Our awareness about ourselves and the world around us is so limited that we are ready to destroy ourselves. For the survival of humanity, an evolution of consciousness is essential. - Debasish Mridha

There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself. - Deborah L. Robinson

There is one thing alonethat stands the brunt of life throughout its course:a quiet conscience. - Euripides

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

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. - Jeph Jacques

Not until we are faced with a crisis or sadness do we begin to remember that if we only laughed a bit more, loved a lot more, and felt the simplicity of loving ourselves-just a little more…this day would be the greatest day ever! - Lee Pryke

Love yourself and feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. - Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. - Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there. - Destiny Booze

If your going to put yourself out there, you just have to let the criticism roll off your back". - Cliff Hannold

let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker. - J.A. Redmerski

Loving yourself comes first from there everything else falls into place - Shellie Palmer

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. - Albert Einstein

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others. - Kamand Kojouri

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. - Dan Harmon

I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours. - Sara Miles

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. - Jesse Stuart

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. - John Stuart Mill

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist - Lady Gaga

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."- - Mark Miller

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. - Abraham Lincoln

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring? - Debasish Mridha

You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are not good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God. - Eileen Anglin

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. - Katherine Mansfield

Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can. - Karlyle Tomms

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. - Russ von Hoelscher

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are. - Judith Butler

Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others. - Steve Maraboli

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. - Mike Norton

You have control over yourself. You are the master of your destiny. You're the captain of your ship and YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... - Ane Krstevska

Be kind to everyone you meet.Give a little bit of yourself to mankind. - Lailah Gifty Akita

From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

It is not those events outside of our control which we should allow to define us. Instead, the definition of who we choose to be is dictated by how we deal with these outside events within ourselves. - Tony C. Skye

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself. - Cintra Wilson

Keep your honesty as earth inside.Keep your focus as fire inside.Keep your determination as water inside.Keep your passion as blood inside.Most importantly keep love as it transcends all.At last keep your calm and winning is all yours. Embrace it!!! - Jatin Nasa

Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be. - Lucas Scott

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Respect yourself is you would have others respect you. - Baltasar Gracián

Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves. - Robert M. Drake

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What really matters is what you think of yourself. - Avis J. Williams

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. - Robert Rodriguez

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset. - Michael Dean Russell Jr.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. - George R.R. Martin

When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter. - Joo Lian Carter

be determined with patience that's it.. game is yours.. - kurbhatt

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. - Jonathan Safran Foer

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. - John Locke

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves. - Laura Moncur

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature. - Morrie Schwartz

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself. - Lindy West

You Don't need anyone to live a full life, You just need to find yourself! - J.Ghorbani

Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. - - RVM

If you want to change the world, first change yourself. - Debasish Mridha

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. - Ayn Rand

...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? - Sylvia Plath

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.) - Robert Burns

The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery. - Joel T. McGrath

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. - Robert Rauschenberg

It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. - Jerome K. Jerome

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. - James Carroll

But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde

The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. - Bryant McGill

If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists. - Abhijit Naskar

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself. - Debasish Mridha

You are the only thing that's holdin' yourself back If you keep waiting you might miss another chance.

You are the only person that you'll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker. - Dani N M.

Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go. - Robin Dabhi

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character. - Michelle Richmond

When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. - Beryl Markham

Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart. - Nike Thaddeus

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. - Peter McWilliams

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them. - Michael Jordan

Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear. - Grigoris Deoudis

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed. - Ellen DeGeneres

Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself. - Christopher Hitchens

The best way to relieve stress is to trust yourself. - Debasish Mridha

The first and most enemy that we have are ourselves. - Abdulsalam Unshur

Motivate yourself, you can be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. - Erma Bombeck

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path - Mehmet Murat ildan

It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. - Ellen Hopkins

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. - Donna Tartt

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others. - Asa Don Brown

To know the world, know yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Friend's future is all yours, but past is ours, we lived it together. - Nikhil Karke

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control - Venancio Cadle Gomani Jr.

Listen or reading success stories give You motivation, but the failure stories gives us the Lesson to Improve ourselves to do it Better. - Jan Jansen Easy Branches

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. - Herman Melville

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. - Sam Ewing

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. - Rudyard Kipling

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss. - A.D. Posey

A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile. - Kiara Maharaj

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. - Janet Frame

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Never seek permission to be yourself. - Debasish Mridha

When you use your mind to grow yourself, education doesn't come into it. - Stephen Richards

Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept. - Bill George Peter Sims

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude

Writers Block? Get out and have fun. Love yourself. No use frowning and buying anti-wrinkle cream after. - Juan Morris

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself. - Bashar

I think we should love life, nature, other people, more than ourselves. - Marty Rubin

Don't give up.Work hard.Believe in yourself.Do your best.Success will be yours - KatherineChin

Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To never avenge yourselves (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God’s blessing also on their lives. - Greg Gordon

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends,It is but sad Decay, so,Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία). - Roman Payne

Love yourself; you won’t regret it ever. - M.F. Moonzajer

Never allow yourself to be defined by some else's opinion of you....unless they hold a higher opinion of you than you have for yourself. - Audrey Moralez

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course. - Jonathan Tropper

You only can get out of our challenges by changing yourself. Change comes from within... a greater passion, a greater commitment, and a greater life. you can begin today. - Farshad Asl

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it. - Albert Schweitzer

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where you most needed to go. - April Bryan

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? - Dean Bokhari

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. - Nathaniel Branden

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. - Richard Bach

Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were. - David Brooks

Sacrificing a part of yourself so others can go on to fafill there greatness, their destiny. Is greatness in itself but in a much smaller way that won't be written about or put in history books. But it is far more great in many ways. - Thomas Brodie Sangster

Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God - Anonymous

We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit. - Steve Maraboli

I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!

Set yourself ablaze. Allow your light to shine upon others without fear. When you radiate from within, others cannot dampen your fire. - Rita Johansen

Be true to yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. - Wayne W. Dyer

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. - Henry David Thoreau

Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire. - Justin Young

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself. - Georgia O'Keeffe

I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. - Emma Cline

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

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, Are you at peace with yourself? and he answered, No, I’m at peace. It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one. - Álvaro de Campos

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein

Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. - Samuel Johnson

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours. - Gary Hopkins

Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It's not selfish, it's necessary. - Keysha Jade

Be yourself. The world worships the original. - Jean Cocteau

J'ai toujours fait des gâteaux. Parce que sinon, la vie était trop dure. Faire des gâteaux, c'était un défi, et un combat. - Durian Sukegawa

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it. - Israelmore Ayivor

You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself. - Unarine Ramaru