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

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

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

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Meister Eckhart

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner

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

Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus

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 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

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Albert Ellis