The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius

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

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
Confucius

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

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

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney

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

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington