Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne Williamson

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James