Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

We learn best when we're intrinsically motivated - that is, when we try something new for the sheer enjoyment of the experience.

I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great

To help others develop, start with yourself.

It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with.

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.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.