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Quotes About Yourself

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
~ Johannes Tauler
Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.
~ Gautama Buddha
Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You'll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself!,
~ Timothy Ferriss
Buffett told him, "Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
~ Tom Bodett
Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.
~ Howard Bloom
I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
~ Lori Petty
Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
~ Patti LaBelle
It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning. Buttercup stood, made her bed, changed her clothes, combed her hair, smiled, and burst out again in a fit of weeping. Because there was a limit to just how much you could lie to yourself.
~ William Goldman
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.
~ Chinese proverb
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
~ Henry Rollins
It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.
~ Mike Pence
I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
~ Meghan Markle
These were people lodged deep in my life and who would be forever. I suppose that's one of the definitions of family. With that comes unspoken, unconditional love, and the safety to be totally yourself.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Get What You Deserve: How to Guerrilla Market Yourself.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.
~ Lupe Fiasco
You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.
~ David Lynch
Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!
~ Eric Jacobson
It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
~ Ben Schnetzer
I'm an actor, and the thing about an actor is that if you're fortunate enough and you have the ability, is you can access multiple parts of yourself. I want to grow and see how far can I stretch.
~ Jonathan Majors
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
~ David Sarnoff
Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
~ John Prine