About Yourself Quotes - Page 17

• Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Thinking, Tests, Limits

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• You grow into everything you hate about yourself, over time.

  Lights

  Hate, Grows

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• Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.

  Marshall Sylver

  Believe, Self, Programming

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• I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

  Russell Means

  Writing, Arrogant, Alive

  "HERB CAEN -- Caennecting the Dots" by Herb Caen, www.sfgate.com. January 31, 1996.

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• I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

  Peter Carey

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

  Mary J. Blige

  Doe, Care, Love Myself

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• The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Real, Order

  "The Biofuels Debacle". www.nysun.com. April 28, 2008.

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• There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

  Ali Vincent

  Fundamentals, Changing Your Life

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.3, Rodale

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• When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

  Mark Mulder

  Pitching, Inconsistent, Seasons

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• Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

  Jack Canfield

  Moving, Opportunity, Risk

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen (2010). “The Power Of Focus”, p.103, Random House

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• If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Want, Today

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• Enthusiasm is my superpower. One might say that confidence yields the same result. I disagree. Confidence is about yourself, enthusiasm is about something else. Confidence is impressive, but enthusiasm is infectious. Confidence is serious, enthusiasm is fun.

  Tina Roth-Eisenberg

  Fun, Yield, Might

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• It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'

  Keira Knightley

  Interesting, Wow, Middle

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

  Dorothy Day

  Gratitude, Giving, Feel Good

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

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• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

  Taran Killam

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

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• When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

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• The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

  Brian Tracy

  Children, Mirrors, Law

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• If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

  Christian Finnegan

  Summer, Heart, Als

  "Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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• Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Cells, Body

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.26, Harmony

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• People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps... sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?

  Bill Hicks

  Self Esteem, War, Feel Better

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• I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

  Emmy Rossum

  Adults, How You Feel, Situation

  Source: collider.com

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• I was 17 when it was being filmed and so I was at an age where you are learning a lot about yourself. I came out of school to film it, and I hadn't been having a good time in school before that. I get quite shy around big groups of people. If I meet people, especially my peers and people my own age, I always struggle because I've always worked with adults and they have a tendency to molly coddle you a bit when you're the youngest on-set.

  Yasmin Paige

  Struggle, School, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Stand up straight. If you stand up straight, you will instantly feel better about yourself, and you will project a better image to the world, one that says you don't feel like you have to be hunched over and closed off.

  Chris Hardwick

  Feel Better, World, Like You

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• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  Blake Russell

  Running, Distance, Simple

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