Check Yourself Quotes

• Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

  Meg Cabot

  Safety, Wrecks, Due Date

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

  Glenn Beck

  Girl, Wrecks, Due Date

  "Glenn Beck", transcripts.cnn.com. February 8, 2007.

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• We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Jobs, Important, Littles

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

  Laird Hamilton

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Want, Spirals, Checks

  "There's something about Mary". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2008.

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• Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

  Andy Cohen

  Being Yourself, Passion, Wrecks

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• Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.

  Lizz Winstead

  Tolerance, Public Opinion, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Passion, Mean, Eye

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Lying

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• There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.

  Jill Scott

  Children, Starting Over, Checks

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