What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Lauren Bacall

Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

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

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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