Yourself Quotes

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

Greatest, Victory, Conquer

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Mind, Goal

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra

Important, Pretty, After

Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happen, Believing, Magic

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer

Put, Unhappy, Simply

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Tad Williams

Love, Trust, Home

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

Anger, Forget, Study

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Idea, Seriously, Shoulders

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach

True, Fake, Impossible

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

Time, Nice, Someone

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett

Find, Energy, Boat

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby

Hope, Children, Give

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
Dave Pelzer

Best, Help, Learn

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Paul J. Meyer

Confidence, Plan, Obstacles

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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Find, Easy, Calm

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

Best, Reality, Expect

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

Suffering, Sight, Spare

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

Time, Until, Value

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox

Change, Today, Kindness

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne

Give, Others, Lend

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

Hate, Mind, Forget

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Work, Him, Down

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley

Change, Accept, Remove

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates

Time, Business, Realize

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de Angelis

Life, Change, Happiness

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

Energy, Lose, Bigger

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

Happen, Accept, Ask

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