We’ve collected the best Yourself Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Sun Tzu, Albert Hammond, Jr., Tena Desae, Katharine Hepburn, Gautam Gambhir. Use them as an inspiration.
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Sometimes it’s important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.
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The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
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If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.
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Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It’s not the outside world – it’s your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
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When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.
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While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences – beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.
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I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
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I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
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I just want to say, don’t be afraid, believe in yourself, whatever comes your way you have to experience it to really know what that is. So if you have too much fear inside you may let go of certain opportunities or chances, so trust in yourself and stick with it.
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
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I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You’ve just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.
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To this day, I don’t like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you’re going to play special.
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Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself – that is the best combination.
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You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that’s just sticking with my family.
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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.
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I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
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You’re not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.
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I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
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Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
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Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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If no one else is going to hype you up, you have to do it yourself.
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If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
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You gotta have confidence in yourself first before anybody else will. I’ve always had that.
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When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
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Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
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There are ups and downs, but whatever happens, you have to trust and believe in yourself.
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Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
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Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.
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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Don’t hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.
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If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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Don’t be afraid to express yourself through fashion!
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Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
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You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
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To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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Don’t worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
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If you can’t love yourself, you can’t love other people.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Celebrate life in all its glory – challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.
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Know your power, believe in yourself and don’t let anyone dim your light.
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You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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If you trust in yourself and fight for it until the end, your dreams will come true.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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There’s no one to stop you but yourself.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
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You can’t please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
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Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.
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Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
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With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you’re not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you’re not in the framework of the script, you’re just making everything easier so it fits you.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!
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To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Believe in yourself. You are enough.
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I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
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I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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I’m very comfortable in my skin. Everyone has insecurities – I joke around about wishing I had more cheeks – but I’m happy with who I am. You have to make do with what you have. If you carry yourself right, you can make anything look good.
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Surround yourself with positive people and you’ll be a positive person.
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I think people should have fun. And don’t get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself.
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The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger‘. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.
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Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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You’re only as good as the people who you surround yourself with.
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
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You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
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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.
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Don’t let others define you. You define yourself.
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Be yourself and set the trend. Don’t follow.
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If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
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Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
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You’re never going to be bulletproof, but if you’re feeding yourself good food and making sure you’re eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.
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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.
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When you’re able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
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The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
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To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
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You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
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You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
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It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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If you haven‘t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
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Being yourself is very sexy, you know?
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You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.
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When you are injured, you need to strengthen yourself very well to make a comeback very confidently.
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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God’s borne out on you.
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Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don’t let anyone steal your joy.
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It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder – don’t be tired about it.
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Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
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Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
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You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.
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Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
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The more you back yourself, the more consistent you become in finishing the game.
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Regrets are something you can’t really have as an actor, because ultimately you’ll end up destroying yourself… there’s a lot of disappointment in this business.
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If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
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What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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You can’t think about what other people think. You just can’t. It’s stupid. You’ve got to look inside yourself.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
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Sometimes it’s like watching a train wreck. You’re uncomfortable, but you just can’t help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
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Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.
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Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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Don’t be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.
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My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It’s not always about looking pretty or cute. It’s about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that’s being silly or goofy or weird.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you’re going to get.
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Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
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I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
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As long as you’re being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it’ll be the best thing you could do.
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Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.
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I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
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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?
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
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There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing all the time.
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People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you’re trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.
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The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
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Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself – that’s hot.
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Be beautiful, be stylish, and love yourself.
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Bet on yourself and be… more than.
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I come from a very rough background, and I’m saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
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Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
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Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Zumba is a great dance-cardio option that’s an immersive experience for participants and is not only effective but allows you to express yourself while getting in shape.
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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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I really believe in the ‘Glow’ and live my life that way. It’s about being positive inside and out and being the best version of yourself possible.
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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
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Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
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Just enjoy every moment – don’t stress. Just be yourself.
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Take your job seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.
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Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful – it’s sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life – one with more oxygen.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that’s love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.
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You’ve got to express yourself in life, and it’s better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.
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Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
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A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can’t put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you’re doing it from a position of correction.
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My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
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I’m a big believer that you surround yourself with good people which brings the best out of you.
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There’s such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you’d never dream of doing by yourself.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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‘Minecraft’ is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
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My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
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It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: ‘Dijkstra would not have liked this’, well that would be enough immortality for me.
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
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As long as you remain true to yourself and continue training with sincerity, nobody can stop you from achieving excellence.
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.
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Never stop, never give up, never stop giving yourself the self-confidence you need to be a champion.
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You are who you surround yourself with. I know that’s such a cliche quote, but it’s true.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.
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You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
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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.
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
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I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it’s always going to make you remember who you are.
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
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I think there’s something really powerful about being yourself.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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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.
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Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
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All we have is today. Just live it. We don’t know about tomorrow. So, enjoy the day. Love yourself, and spread love around.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Believe in yourself, be persistent, and don’t let anyone break your confidence.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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I think it’s important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and… everybody’s hot.
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If you think you can do better, then do better. Don’t compete with anyone; just yourself.
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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
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When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
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You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
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Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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I’ve always said, if you treat yourself like a queen, you’ll attract a king.
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Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
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You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.
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Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
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As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
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The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
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Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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It’s doesn’t just come overnight, you’ve got to train for it and believe in yourself; that’s the most important thing.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
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I don’t think it’s healthy to take yourself too seriously.
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Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?
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Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
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If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
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Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
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Collaboration is important not just because it’s a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
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I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
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Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
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Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can’t necessarily get any other way.
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If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
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Some people like you, some people don’t. In the end you just have to be yourself.
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
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Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
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You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.
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I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident – just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection.
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The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
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In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.
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Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
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If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
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The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.
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It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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Never assume you can’t do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
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Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
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When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don’t want to do it any more, when you think it’s hard.
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You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.
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Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
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If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
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You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
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You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.
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Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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When you’re doing good, everybody praises you. But when everything’s all gone, a lot of people are nowhere to be found. So you always just believe in yourself, do it yourself and you won’t be let down.
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I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you – magic all around you – no matter what situation you’re in.
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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn’t perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
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Surround yourself with people who believe in you.
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Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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If there’s any definition to being perfect, you’re perfect at being yourself.
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Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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If someone else isn’t making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
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You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
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With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
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You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
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Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
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Always read your contract. Know what you’re getting yourself into. Know your worth.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you.
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Everything you want to accomplish is already within yourself so when you start to roll in self-doubt and think negative thoughts then you’ll fall off. So keep visualising and keep knowing what you’re destined for, it’ll come to you.
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Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
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Having fun is definitely how you’re going to keep yourself loose, and be at your best.
