Thinking Of Yourself Quotes:

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Being Yourself, Work, Being Single, Just Being You, Work You Love

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Positive, Individuality, Theatre, Live For Yourself, Just Being You

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

- George S. Patton

topic: Motivational, Business, Learning, Military General, Being Weird

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Majority And Minority, Courage To Change

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspiring Yourself, Love Acceptance

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

- Tim Field

topic: Silence, Victim, Bullied, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Think For Yourself

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

- Gianni Versace

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Being Yourself, Keys, Just Being You, Inspiring Fashion

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Being Yourself, Book, Passion, Live For Yourself, Just Being Me

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Inspirational, Women, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Love Your Self

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Positive, Strength, Inspiring, Non Violence, Confidence In Yourself

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness, I Think Of You, Conformist

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm, True Believer, Conformist

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Inspirational, Life, People, Just Believe In Yourself, I Think Of You

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

- Goldie Hawn

topic: Beauty, Running, Running Away, Improving Yourself, Confidence In Yourself

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010)

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Thinking, Texas, Risk, Thinking Of Yourself, Greatest Atheist

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear, Inspire Creativity, Love Yourself More

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Life, Bullying, Being Yourself, Just Being You, I Think Of You

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirations Being Yourself

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

To find yourself, think for yourself.

- Socrates

topic: Independent, Thinking, Finding Yourself, Independence And Freedom, Discovering Yourself

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are

- Gianni Versace

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Trends, Style Icons, Elegant, Fashionista

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Life, Confidence, Thinking, Inspirational Confidence, Belief In Yourself

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real, Full Of Yourself, Thinking About Yourself

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Just Being You, Inspiring Yourself

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Being Yourself, Inspiration, Thinking, Just Being You, I Think Of You

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Freedom, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Being Weird

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom, Jailer, Inspirational Presidential

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Philosophical, Pay, Privilege, Just Being You, I Think Of You

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian, True Humility, Intellectual Humility

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

- Joyce Brothers

source: "The Pocket Philosopher/ Psychologist" by Mark J. Merten, (p. 87), 2004.

topic: Positive, Success, Motivation, Student Success, Desire For Success