Yourself Quotes

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius

Others, Desire, Impose

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Others, Fair, Ask

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

Fear, Enemy, Results

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

Best, Possible, Walk

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

Higher, Surround, Lift

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.
Jim Rohn

Change, Cannot, Personal

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

Life, Faith, Busy

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

Fool, Job, Friend

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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Mistakes, Everything

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington

Someone, Else, Lift

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Long, Find

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

Soul, Rather, Body

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happy, Thinking

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

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

Power, Respect, Real

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Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Present, Confine

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

Important, Pride, Difficult

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon

Time, God, Down

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

Learning, Miss, Ground

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

Love, Earth, Dog

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James

Mind, Judge, Everything

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Art, Mistakes, Creativity

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Bad, Book

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Die, Before

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Russell Brand

Happy, Selfish, Care

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine

Gospel, Reject, Gospels

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Blame, Fruit

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