Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

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

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Brian Tracy

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Bob Marley

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

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

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Samuel Goldwyn