160 Thinking About Yourself Quotes

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Famous Thinking About Yourself Quotes

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. — Charlie Chaplin

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you. — Byron Katie

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection. — Alex Turner

If you are fully focused on yourself and hardly think of others, you have been overtaken by the bug of the last days. — Enoch Adeboye

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. - Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. — Plato

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen

To find yourself, think for yourself. - Socrates

To find yourself, think for yourself. — Socrates

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. — Seneca The Elder

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror. — Lil Wayne

Focus on what’s best for yourself. — Andrew Tate

You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you. — Jerry Lewis

Study yourself. Find your strong points and make them stronger as well as your weak ones and strengthen them. Study yourself carefully and you will see yourself as you really are. — William Walker Atkinson

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. - Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. — Plato

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you. — Henry David Thoreau

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts. — Byron Katie

Short Thinking About Yourself Quotes

  • Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. — Plato
  • You become what you think about. — Earl Nightingale
  • Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato
  • I'm constantly thinking. — Kendrick Lamar
  • Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. — 50 Cent
  • When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays. — Pablo Picasso
  • be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
  • You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. — David Viscott
  • When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary. — M. Scott Peck
  • What you think you become. — Buddha

Top 10 Thinking About Yourself Quotes

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

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

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. - Lao Tzu

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu

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

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

As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos. — Lewis Howes

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. — Elon Musk

If you think you can't, you're right. - Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself. — Billie Jean King

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself. — Meryl Streep

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it. — Heidi Klum

Thinking About Yourself Image Quotes

Just be yourself, there is no one better. - Taylor Swift quote

Just be yourself, there is no one better. — Taylor Swift

Thinking about yourself quote Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Start Thinking About Yourself Quotes

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 think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. — Avi

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want. — Brian Tracy

Thinking about yourself quote The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

I often think about the idea that augmentation has become the new normal. When you start to augment and filter yourself because you think you should, you're kind of putting your worth in other people's hands, rather than having that worth come from within. — Nelly Furtado

The one thing about me is, I don't care what people think. It all starts with yourself. I believe in myself. I love myself. So it's kind of like, they can shove it up their you - know - whats. — Vince Wilfork

I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere. — Gabriel Iglesias

Thinking about yourself quote When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of an
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent. — Freida Pinto

You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it. — Kalup Linzy

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

The main thing is always try to find different voices for yourself. If you're in your car just driving somewhere you can try to start thinking about a voice you might want to do, like try a British accent. — Ashly Burch

Stop Thinking About Yourself Quotes

… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? — Wassily Kandinsky

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. — Joyce Brothers

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself! — Suze Orman

Thinking about yourself quote Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Stop worrying about what others think. At the end of the day, you have to live with you. Trust yourself. No one has to tell you when it's right. Do what you need to do. — Cheryl Richardson

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe. — William Golding

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger. — Bear Grylls

Thinking about yourself quote If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it cam
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing. — Julie Taymor

Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience. — Tony Robbins

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself. — Greg Gutfeld

You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams — Kai Greene

Only Thinking About Yourself Quotes

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

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself. — Austin Mahone

There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. — Bob Marley

Thinking about yourself quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others. — Frederick Lenz

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else. — Esmeralda Santiago

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it. — Glenn Greenwald

Thinking about yourself quote Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who yu are.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who yu are.

That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right. — Angie Sage

It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts — Nick Faldo

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you. — Annie Lennox

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day? — Jennifer Beals

Not Thinking For Yourself Quotes

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

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore. — Ronnie Radke

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen. — Eugen Herrigel

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient. — Bernard Arnault

Thinking about yourself quote First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.

Don’t live for the approval of others. Document the moments you’re most in love with yourself, not just the moments you think people will love the most. — Jay Shetty

As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit. — Taizan Maezumi

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. — Margi Clarke

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people — Karl Lagerfeld

Life Thinking For Yourself Quotes

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. — Earl Nightingale

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now. — John Spence

Thinking about yourself quote I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. — N. D. Kalu

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve. — Bryant H. McGill

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. — Cornel West

Thinking about yourself quote Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.

I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy. — Linus Pauling

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you. — Joseph Campbell

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life. — Portia de Rossi

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself — Brian Tracy

How Do I Write A Quotes

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. — Graham Greene

Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all. — Eknath Easwaran

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." — Stephen King

Thinking about yourself quote Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions. — Michael Shannon

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story. — Kevin Smith

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area. — Bob Proctor

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. — James Rollins

You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things. — Matt Corby

Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered. — Mick Jagger

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there. — Candace Bushnell

Thinking Of Yourself Quotes

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius

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

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

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal

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

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. — Myles Munroe

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

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

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

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

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

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. — Wilson Mizner

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

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More Thinking About Yourself Quotes

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

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc] — Buddha

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

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. — Tina Turner

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

I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself. — Noam Chomsky

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities. — Paul Polman

You need to do some independent thinking, especially about the important things, and try to work them out for yourself. — Edward O. Thorp

When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light. — Masaru Emoto

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody. — John Spence

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. — Joseph Campbell

You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin — Rumi

I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list. — Michelle Obama

God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know. — Jesse Duplantis

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan Boesky

Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline. — Mariska Hargitay

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads. — Cassandra Wilson

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process. — 50 Cent

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible. — Cate Blanchett

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life. — Fiona Apple

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying. — Ellen DeGeneres

I think of love as an action. Finding something that's outside of yourself, to serve someone else's soul, helping to ignite someone else's spirit, to bring about ease of heart and joy, serenity in somebody else. — Michael Franti

I think it's good to surround yourself with people you care about and that care about you, and you all trust each other, and then you don't have to worry about problems and shitty stuff happening. — Nate Diaz

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself. — Agnes Martin

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie. — Kristen Wiig

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