Kevin DeYoung Quotes

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

I try to take interest in whatever comes my way. Another aspect of this is [that] if at the beginning it seems like something I don't want to do, I ask myself why I don't want to do this and why I feel this way. It's perhaps rooted in the fact that I'm trying to avoid something.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look in the mirror less."

Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?