#yours

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#good #motto #thing #want #you

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#give #something #toward #work #yourself

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#gospel #gospels #like #reject #you

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #decide #fate #future #life

I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine ↗

— Elton John

#billy-elliot #musicals #life

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#self-determination #being

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#comparison #get #i #inevitable #interested

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. ↗

— Paul Bryant

#believe in yourself #dedication #high #never #never quit

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#always #be yourself #duplicate #express #express yourself

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional