Quotations on Yourself
Love yourself first.
-Lucille Ball
Too many people overvalue what they're not and undervalue what they are.
-Malcolm Forbes
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-Mark Twain
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself.
-Henry David Thoreau
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
-George Sheehan
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself.
-Ethel Barrymore
Be yourself is the worst advice you can give some people.
-Tom Masson
The final mystery is oneself.
-Oscar Wilde
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.
-Anonymous
The most important words we'll ever utter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we're by ourselves.
-Al Walker
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
-Frank Crane
You can never have a greater or a lesser dominion than that over yourself.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing can bring peace but yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
-Janis Joplin
When one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
-Doris Lessing
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
-Steve Young
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-A. J. Kitt
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
-Akeem Olajuwon
I don't think anyone can perform as an athlete if they can't be themselves. . . The only way to reach your potential is to be free.
-Nancy Reno
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
-Jim Abbott
Take time to come home to yourself everyday.
-Robin Casarjean
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
-Wayne Dyer
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself.
-Martin Rutte
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
-George Matthew Adams
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
-Rod Steiger
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-Oscar Wilde
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
-Alan Alda
The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
-Todd Ruthman

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