I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. — Savielly Tartakower
Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe. — David James
Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can. — Gabrielle Bernstein
There is a saying that goes, 'If you talked to your friends the way you talk to yourself, you wouldn't have any. —
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul. — Peter Shepherd
Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU! — John Assaraf
Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely. — Christine Caine
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself. — Peter O'Toole
Short Talking To Yourself Quotes
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. — John Gardner
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. — Peter O'Toole
Chewing, one eats. Reflecting, one speaks. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Practice yourself what you preach. — Plautus
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. — Jane Wagner
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. — Thomas Szasz
Tell the person next to you that they look nice today. If you are alone, tell yourself. — Markiplier
I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. — Lee Ryan
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. — Denis Waitley
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you. — Byron Katie
Top 10 Talking To Yourself Quotes
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink. — Edgar Allan Poe
Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is! — Joel Osteen
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. — Osho
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. — Rob Reiner
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. — Yao Ming
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions. — Oseola McCarty
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself — Ned Vizzini
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. — Cassandra Clare
When you have children, you learn to love something more than you love yourself, and you can talk about that all day long, but you have never had that feeling until you’ve had a child. — Naval Ravikant
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. — Lisa Kirk
Talking To Yourself Image Quotes
Some people think I'm unhappy, but I'm not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking.
What To Say When You Talk To Yourself Quotes
Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write. — Sandra Cisneros
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to. — Dabney Coleman
When we worked on Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted album. Before we talked studios, beats, or lyrics, I said, "Two rules: Only say what you're able to vouch for. Number two, never repeat yourself twice, because we makin' an album that people will play over and over. — Chuck D
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds. — Napoleon Hill
You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you. — Allen Ginsberg
Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do. — Robert Crais
How You Speak To Yourself Quotes
Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it? — Dale Carnegie
If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much? — Geneen Roth
It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned? — Jean Rhys
Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often.
Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it." — William Mapother
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace? — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? — Victor Hugo
What You Say To Yourself Quotes
Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals. — Michelle Obama
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
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. — Michelle Obama
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Epictetus
First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of. — Zig Ziglar
The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says. — Hikaru Nakamura
Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours.
Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life. — Jake Gyllenhaal
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go! — Zedd
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.' — Wayne Dyer
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. — Jean Sibelius
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal
Don't talk negatively about yourself, you may just start to believe it.
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world. — Shams Tabrizi
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Thomas Merton
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius
There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight. — Marcus Luttrell
Thinking About Yourself Quotes
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow. — Misha Collins
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you. — Jerry Lewis
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious. — Maxine Greene
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all. — Coco Chanel
Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it. — Gerry Lindgren
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
Talking About Yourself Quotes
Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.
The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley
In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in. — Anna Wintour
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. — Wilson Mizner
Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.' — Iris Apfel
There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious. — Marion Woodman
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. — Jerome K. Jerome
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals. — Robert Kiyosaki
The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself. — Dylan Moran
In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. — Thomas Merton
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — Soren Kierkegaard
Self Talk Quotes
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place. — Albert Ellis
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned — Drake
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it. — Ossian Everett Mills
If there is one thing that will change your life forever, it is recognizing that the voice talking to you is not you! — Mo Gawdat
You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. — William Ury
Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.
I would never be the first to bring up whitening, because just by bringing it up, you're shaming the patient a little bit. You're talking about their self-image. As long as there's no structural defect in the tooth, I would never bring up whitening. — Mark Burhenne
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing. — Dan Millman
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world. — Chris Kraus
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. — Bo Burnham
Writing For Yourself Quotes
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. — Socrates
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. — Harlan Ellison
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer. — David Morrell
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. — George Orwell
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. — Socrates
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. — Angela Carter
The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later. — Patricia Highsmith
When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe. — Adam Young
Listen To Yourself Quotes
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself. — Malcolm X
Listen to the inner light;
It will guide you.
Listen to the inner Peace;
It will feed you.
Listen to the inner Love;
It will transform you,
It will divinise you,
It will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. — Howard Thurman
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. — Dogen
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? — Charles Bukowski
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God. — J. Vernon McGee
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself. — Chief Dan George
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding. If we want to understand other human beings, there is no better way than to listen to them with empathy like a close friend would. If you wish to understand yourself, the same rule applies: listen with empathy. Instead of talking negatively to yourself, try to listen to yourself with respect and positive attention. Instead of judging yourself, accept yourself just as you are. — William Ury
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy. — Norman Vincent Peale
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right. — Tony Iommi
If you are quietly asking yourself whether this virus is connected to laboratories studying Corona viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a good number of the smartest people I talk to are wondering the same thing. They however don’t want to be scolded for wondering aloud. — Eric Weinstein
Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out? — Ken Griffey, Jr.
Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing. — 50 Cent
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence. — Dale Carnegie
Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself. — Pseudonymous Bosch
If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine. — Austin Carlile
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices. — Jeff Bezos
If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I've always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it's because people think I look a little crazy. — Tim Burton
The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest. — Peter Senge
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them. — Christian D. Larson
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. — Brené Brown
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. — Christian D. Larson
Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself. — Paulette Goddard
If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it. — Doug Stanhope
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes. — Andrew Sullivan
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