Sentence examples for you told yourself from inspiring English sources

You've been worrying about work a bit too much lately (you told yourself as a youth you would rather murder your own head off than worry about work, and now look at you: the faint scent of a half-promotion in the water and here you are taking your laptop home at night)?

How many times have you told yourself, "At least I'm not as bad as so and so"?

How many times have you told yourself that you will start exercising regularly come Monday or that you will start eating healthier come the first of January?

It seemed so random then, picking off strangers and acquaintances for no particular reason, but always, you told yourself, for reasons far from you.

What you did wasn't so bad.You stood in a small room, waiting for the sun.At least you told yourself that.I know it was small,but there was something, a kind of pulped lemon,at the low edge of the sky.

What we were left with was what the Oscars would be like if Hollywood forgot to fill out the nomination forms: however often you told yourself that it was good to see so many Belgian actors and Taiwanese directors up for awards, you'd still end up itching for a glimpse of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

You tell yourself that, Cynthia.

You tell yourself: 'You're a senior.

"You tell yourself to shake it off.

That's what you tell yourself you're afraid of.

I know that moment, you tell yourself.