About Yourself Quotes - Page 34

• You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free.

  Eileen Caddy

  Negativity, Over You, Belief

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• If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Happiness, Thinking, Looks

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• Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

  Robert Greene

  People, Political, Doubt

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• Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

  Dan Millman

  Trying, Three, Waste

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• You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

  Lev Grossman

  People

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• Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Generosity, Giving, Waiting

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Thinking, Genuine Friends

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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.

  Benny Goodman

  Good Day, Play, People

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• When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

  Mitch Albom

  Rotten, One More Day, Those You Love

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Want, Honest

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2015

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• Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.32, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career, your spouse

  Dale Dauten

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Careers

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

  Joseph Campbell

  Character, Goes On, Evoke

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Talking, Ideas, Long

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

  Jake Steinfeld

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Self Worth

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• It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion.

  Silken Laumann

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

  Cicely Tyson

  Life, Women, Adversity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

  "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Worth

  "Bamboolizing Black America: Classified". Book by E. Malcolm Wise, 2013.

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• Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

  Chris Bradford

  Courage, Giving Up, Mistake

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• You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Sunday

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• If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Simple, Self

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• People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice anything. They don’t care about what people think of them. When you hate yourself, whatever people say it doesn’t make sense. ‘Why do they like me? Why do they care about me?’ Because you don’t care about yourself at all.

  Richey Edwards

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

  Wilson Mizner

  Humility, Humble, Carpe Diem

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