Like Yourself Quotes

• Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

  Mike Murdock

  People, Like You, Popularity

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from May 15, 2014

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• You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Joy

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Life, Family

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

  Marge Piercy

  Life, May, Like You

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Confidence

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.

  Jo Coudert

  Self Esteem, Believe, Healing

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse

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• If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

  Johnny Carson

  Doing What You Love, Work You Love, Careers

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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• Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Like You, Embrace, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

  Chinua Achebe

  Doors, Color, Different

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Oct 31, 2015

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• I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Father

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, Thinking, Discipline

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Relationship, Love Yourself

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Drama, Thinking, Matter

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• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Epic

  Plato (2017). “Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)”, p.433, Plato

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• You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Allegiance, Particular

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• If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Ifs

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• It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.

  Claudia Black

  Believe, Like You, Radical

  "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

  John Hughes

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

  Marva Collins

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

  Michael Aspel

  Sound, Mouths, Corny

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