Yourself Quotes

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."
-Henry David Thoreau

"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."
-Albert Einstein

"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."
-Nikki Giovanni

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

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
-Mark Twain

"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one."
-Mark Twain

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
-Mark Twain

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

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"When you are outraged by somebody's impudence, ask yourself at once, 'Can the world exist without impudent people?' It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself."
-Bob Marley

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."
-Andre Gide