#yourself

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#air #different #every #every time #find

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#balance #between #find #need #people

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#anywhere #day #determined #devote #every

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ↗

— Plato

#conquer #conquered #first #greatest #most

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#skepticism #tainted #yourself

Be yourself, let you come through. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#come #through #you #yourself

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. ↗

— John Henry Patterson

#before #cannot #convince #convinced #drop

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#never #read #subject #until #write

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are. ↗

— Troy Perry

#always #continued #grown #i #i always

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. ↗

— Edwin Land

#kidding #method #science #yourself