Quotes on Thinking About Yourself

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

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.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.