Louise Hart Quotes

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

When you give people so much, you don't have anything left for yourself.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer, and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.

Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.