Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Edith Sitwell

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

Bill Murray

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

Bill Murray

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

Cherie Lunghi

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

Charles M. Schulz

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

Bernard Meltzer

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Carl Jung

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Billy Sherwood

Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.

Alanis Morissette

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Denis Waitley

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

Denis Waitley

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Denis Waitley

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

Denis Waitley

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

Denis Waitley

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

John Petit-Senn

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Richard P. Feynman

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

William James

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Richard M. Nixon

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Walker Percy

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

W. H. Auden

We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.

W. H. Auden

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

W. H. Auden

Love each other or perish

Tyson Chandler

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

Rock Hudson

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.