#yours

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#dad #even #i #just #me

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. ↗

— Ice T

#choose #chosen #fortunate #into #just

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out! ↗

— Ron Taffel

#by the time #change #child #even #move

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. ↗

— Amy Tan

#extreme #gift #giving #privilege #someone

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#based #christ #everything #how #humble

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. ↗

— William Temple

#destroy #discourage #health #ill #keep

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#call #cardinal #expense #sin #song

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#does #down #ever #friends #got

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself. ↗

— Peter Berg

#designed #get #hard #lot #make