Best 469 quotes in «finding yourself quotes» category

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself.

If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

If you reach for the stars you may find yourself touching the sky.

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.

If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.

If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong.