Thinking About Yourself Quotes

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

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.

Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it's a kind of long-term thinking that powers you through the obstacles and tough times, helping you solve problems and putting you in the way of success. Your confidence is quite a separate matter from your social skills.

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.

About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).

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.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.