Adapt yourself to the times. [ German Proverb ]

Live not for yourself alone. [ Proverb ]

Teaching others teacheth yourself. [ Proverb ]

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Keep your misfortunes to yourself. [ Hazlitt ]

Love yourself, and in that love
Not unconsidered leave your honour. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

Better go hack than loose yourself. [ Proverb ]

Make yourself necessary to somebody. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

You cannot escape away from yourself. [ Proverb ]

Forgive others often, yourself never. [ Syrus ]

Command your man, and do it yourself. [ Proverb ]

Have no friends not equal to yourself. [ Confucius ]

Help yourself and Heaven will help you. [ French ]

Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife. [ Dryden ]

Do for yourself (fly with your own wings). [ French Proverb ]

Live with yourself; keep within your means.

You pretend the public but intend yourself. [ Proverb ]

None but yourself who are your greatest foe. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of every friend - and every foe. [ Pope ]

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. [ Carlyle ]

Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth:
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where truth is - in a well. [ Byron ]

Grudge not another what you canna get yourself. [ Scotch Proverb ]

So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather. [ Proverb ]

What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. [ Michelet ]

When you have no observers be afraid of yourself. [ Proverb ]

You came for wool but shall return shorn yourself. [ Proverb ]

Change yourself, and your fortune will change too. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. [ Proverb ]

Look in the glass when you with anger glow,
And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know. [ Ovid ]

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. [ Bruyere ]

Your trumpeter is dead, and so you sound yourself. [ Proverb ]

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

This picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. [ Horace ]

If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. [ Proverb ]

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. [ Thales ]

When you give others ill words, you rail at yourself. [ Proverb ]

When you are good to others you are best to yourself. [ Proverb ]

You ought to untie that knot which you knit yourself. [ Proverb ]

You hide yourself in a net and think nobody sees you. [ Proverb ]

If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the time. [ Turk. Proverb ]

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself. [ Joubert ]

Listen at the hole and you will hear news of yourself. [ Proverb ]

Cover yourself with honey and the flies will have you. [ Proverb ]

If you steal for others, you shall be hanged yourself. [ Proverb ]

If you mock the lame, you will go so yourself in time. [ Proverb ]

Cover yourself with your shield, and care not for cries. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

So now you act like yourself, and nobody will trust you. [ Proverb ]

How can you think yourself the wiser for pleasing fools? [ Proverb ]

Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. [ Proverb ]

You have fouled yourself, and now would have me clean you. [ Proverb ]

Daub yourself with honey, and you'll be covered with flies. [ Proverb ]

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person? [ Plautus ]

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. [ William Shakespeare ]

You should ask the world's leave before you commend yourself. [ Proverb ]

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. [ Zimmermann ]

If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes it is better to give your apple, than eat it yourself. [ Proverb ]

Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. [ Italian Proverb ]

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. [ Lessing ]

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. [ Coleridge ]

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought. [ N. P. Willis ]

You will be of as much value to others as you have been to yourself. [ Cicero ]

'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress. [ Epictetus ]

The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. [ Goldsmith ]

Like a dog in a manger, you'll not eat yourself, nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

In adversity and difficulties arm yourself with firmness and fortitude. [ From the Latin ]

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. [ Pascal ]

If you be not content, put your hand in your pocket and please yourself. [ Proverb ]

Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in yourself. [ Sprat ]

Coquetry is the desire to inspire love without experiencing it yourself. [ Mme. de Brade ]

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. [ Seneca ]

Listen to yourself, and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. [ Maya Angelou ]

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders. [ Danish Proverb ]

Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know yourself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. [ Latin Proverb ]

I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. [ Goethe ]

You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Evil is like the nightmare, the instant you bestir yourself it has already ended. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. [ Zimmermann ]

If you will fling yourself under the wheels. Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. [ Thackeray ]

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. [ Thoreau ]

I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. [ Juv ]

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. [ Carlyle ]

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]

If you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, solicit for it straight. [ William Shakespeare ]

When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! [ Colton ]

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. [ Fenelon ]

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. [ Joseph Roux ]

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself, - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. [ Lavater ]

Be not angry that you cannot make others what you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. [ Stanislaus ]

When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. [ Henry Taylor ]

What are you worth today? Not in money, but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell yourself the truth about yourself. [ George H. Hepworth ]

Bring yourself up. Only you can do that. Don't bring others down. This does not improve you. This does not improve anything.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, . . . and you shall need no other comfort. [ Bacon ]

Take a walk to refresh yourself with the open air, which inspired fresh doth exceedingly recreate the lungs, heart and vital spirits. [ Harvey ]

Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. [ Boileau ]

If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them. [ Johnson ]

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]

The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you. [ Johnson ]

Would you console yourself when you die for parting from those with whom you liked to live? Think that they will be soon consoled for your death.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there. [ Bobby Knight ]

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]

Make yourself thoroughly acquainted with your subject before writing, write without special attention to composition, and prune afterwards what you have written. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of tomorrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage. [ Horace ]

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]

It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallowtrade; you must know where to find yourself. [ George Eliot ]

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. [ Horace Mann ]

I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself. [ Dr. Arnold ]

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. [ Carlyle ]

When at last the angels come to convey your departing spirit to Abraham's bosom, depend upon it, however dazzling in their newness they may be to you. you will find that your history is no novelty, and you yourself no stranger to them. [ James Hamilton ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]