It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mohandas Gandhi
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Dalai Lama
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil Gibran
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.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
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.
Audrey Hepburn
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
Confucius
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Henry David Thoreau
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Sun Tzu
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar
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.
Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Bob Marley
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
Tupac Shakur
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
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.
Jim Morrison
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Napoleon Hill
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Napoleon Hill
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
Joel Osteen
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell
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.
Bill Gates
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
