Yourself Quotes

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.
Charlie Kaufman

Love, Hate, End

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.
John le Carre

Laugh, Two, Same

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
Charlotte Bronte

Life, Strength, Person

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
Janet Jackson

Endurance, Crowd, Somehow

It's really about being pleased with yourself.
Janet Jackson

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
Andrew Bernstein

Stress, Between, Frustrated

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
Ben Harper

Strong, Long, Voice

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
Ringo Starr

Life, Time, Learning

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
Gary Oldman

Play, Impossible, Older

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith

Best, Laugh, Start

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
Lester Bangs

Good, Words, Creative

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
Jo Brand

Children, Someone, Hard

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom

Life, Others, Around

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
Alan Cohen

Great, Greatest, Gift

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
Eric Davis

Him, Hit, Protect

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
V. S. Naipaul

Energy, Easy, Looking

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
Brian Koslow

Forget, Lottery, Bet

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
James Cash Penney

Live, Thinking, Thoughts

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Feeling, Understand, Times

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton

Society, Help, Self

I actually go to the gym much more now than I did when I was on Buffy. I like to stay fit, because that's when I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, 'Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?' And I always say, 'No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night.'
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Night, Before, Said

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders

Care, Job, Happen

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
Jenny Eclair

Before, Smoking, Used

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.
Joan Collins

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye

Travel, Journey

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch

Others, High, Second

I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
Florence Welch

Love, Sense, Throw

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
Richard Roeper

Life, True, Give

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper

Find, Against, Golf

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.
Josh Groban

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