Yourself Quotes

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.