Yourself Quotes

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Anybody, Hold, Higher

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Long, Find

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

Time, God, Down

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Faithful, Serve, Servant

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

Kindness, Done, Another

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

Moment, Sure, Breathe

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Good, Alone, Bad

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Good, May

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Michelle Obama

True, Negative, Energy

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Russell Brand

Happy, Selfish, Care

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

Success, Find, Step

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Somebody, Necessary

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Michael Jordan

Focus, Game, Lose

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell

Find, Again, Space

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

Same, Others, Zeal

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu

Snow, White, Neither

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Happiness, Place

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Human, Give, Claim

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Michael Jordan

Live, High, Standards

You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Find, Moment

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Marilyn Monroe

Fun, Past, Through

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Mind, Remember, Far

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Work, Happiness

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger

End, Mean, Accept

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

Courage, Failure, Fool

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, seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius

May, Office, Known

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

Else, Somebody, Instead

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