#yours

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#behavior #better #direction #drift #hang

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#get #jail #know #sentence #want

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#appear #before #caring #concern #cure

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#inconsistent #manner #perform #see #way

Be yourself, take control of your life. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#control #life #take #your #yourself

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#like #make #nothing #rejection #you

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#drag #gonna #gotta #integrity #mud

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about. ↗

— Edward Burns

#act #been #continue #get #how

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse. ↗

— Gary Busey

#actuality #because #change #everyone #friends