Mark Knopfler Quotes

I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

It's important to enjoy who you are and to appreciate things around you.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.