
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Dr. Seuss
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...

Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Suzanne Collins
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

Gustave Flaubert
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

George Bernard Shaw
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Robert Frost
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Mark Twain
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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

Marilyn Monroe
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

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

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Joss Whedon
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Pablo Neruda
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

August Wilson
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Haruki Murakami
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Gautama Buddha
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

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

Lois McMaster Bujold
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

John Grisham
Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

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

C. S. Lewis
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Ernest Hemingway
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Jim Morrison
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Marcus Aurelius
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

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

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

Albert Einstein
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Andy Warhol
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Hermann Hesse
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Judy Garland
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Toni Morrison
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

George Sand
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Raymond Chandler
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

James Joyce
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Jordan Belfort
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

George Orwell
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

Henry David Thoreau
Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Dr. Seuss
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Paulo Coelho
You are what you believe yourself to be.

Margaret Atwood
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

C. S. Lewis
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Neil Gaiman
It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.

Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Bob Marley
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Derek Walcott
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

C. S. Lewis
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Brian Tracy
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

C. S. Lewis
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Adolf Hitler
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Socrates
To find yourself, think for yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
Steven Spielberg
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Alan Moore
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Bob Marley
Judge not unless you judge yourself

Oscar Wilde
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Ernest Hemingway
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

David Byrne
I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.
Amy Sedaris
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

Plato
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Madonna
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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Anderson Cooper
I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Steven Spielberg
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

Edgar Degas
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Karl Lagerfeld
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Antonin Artaud
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Jordan Belfort
The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

Voltaire
Dare to think for yourself.

Rumi
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Margaret Atwood
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

Haruki Murakami
As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

Steven Spielberg
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

Rumi
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Jim Morrison
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Bob Marley
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Henry David Thoreau
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Confucius
Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Roseanne Barr
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

Gautama Buddha
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.