Like Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Writing, Exercise

  6 Copy quote

• You must become like yourself.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Like You, Self Knowledge

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.299, Paradise Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

  Josh Groban

  Being Yourself, Trying, Like You

  8 Copy quote

• Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Opposites, Self Love

  16 Copy quote

• Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

  Jojo Moyes

  Successful, Men, Generations

  9 Copy quote

• You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

  Taylor Swift

  Choices, Truly Happy, Ifs

  24 Copy quote

• Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

  Richard Simmons

  Numbers, Two, Healthy

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2014

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Dragons, Facts

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Upset, Muggles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.11, Pottermore

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

  Jodi Picoult

  Smart, Risk, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Fighting, Condom Use

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

  Lady Gaga

  Mean, Fans, Want

  "Lady Gaga tells Fans 'It's Ok' to be a freak" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 25, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Long, People

  5 Copy quote

• Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Advice, Knows

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's been my experience," he continued, "that when you're with the right people, you feel more like yourself than ever. There's a happiness, and a feeling of coming alive to yourself and the other person, that's like nothing else.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  People, Feelings, Alive

  Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make Himself visible, - I say, if you were to see Him today, you would see Him like a man in form - like yourself in all the person, image, and very form as a man.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Character, Men, Orbit

  4 Copy quote

• Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Solitude, Fae, Rogues

  4 Copy quote

• Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

  John Green

  Cancer, Eye, Grace

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Individuality, Everyday

  59 Copy quote

• The Kingdom of God is Within You.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.

  Warren Ellis

  Sleep, Night, Men

  11 Copy quote

• I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

  Bonnie Wright

  Thinking, Want, Freak

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

  Carol Vorderman

  Mirrors, Ideas, Looks

  6 Copy quote

• I'd like you much better if you didn't like yourself so much.

  Dov Davidoff

  Like You, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Mar 01, 2012

  4 Copy quote

  Show source