As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way. – Hilary Mantel
It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself. – Guy Finley
‘Crazy’ is a term of art; ‘Insane’ is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. – Hunter S. Thompson
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. – Henry David Thoreau
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. – Grimes
If you’re of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that’s often hard for us to do. – Halle Berry
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child. – Hillary Clinton
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. – Henry Kravis
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you’re abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. – Harold MacMillan
What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself. – Grete Waitz
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. – Henry James
If you’re not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don’t have the expectations of yourself that you should have. – Hale Irwin
The one thing I loved so much about making ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ – especially in comparison to a movie like ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ – is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted. – Hailee Steinfeld
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. – Hans Bender
Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself! – Herman Cain
When you’re an artist, you’re expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words. – Halsey
When you’re going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything’s okay and dragging it out. – Hannah Simone
Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be. – Harry Frankfurt
You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don’t depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. – George Woodcock
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don’t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. – Hugh Jackman
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. – Harold Ramis
Don’t let yourself fall into ’empty.’ Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged. – Gretchen Rubin
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. – Harvey Mackay
I emphasise the following: don’t, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don’t act anyone else-that would be fatal. – Graham Kennedy
My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep’. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow. – Howard Schultz
