In this post, you will find great Myself Quotes from famous people, such as Fred Armisen, Magic Johnson, Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maya Angelou. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don’t pretend that.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.
I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.
I keep my political views to myself.
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
I’m a King. Regardless of what I’ve been through and what I’ve done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.
My expectations on myself exceed any of those put on me.
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
I’m inconsistent, even to myself.
I still do believe in carrying yourself a certain way, and I do my best to be somewhat of a role model. I’m not a perfect person. I’m a human being. I’m not the Lord, but I do accept that responsibility, and that’s why I do try to carry myself with confidence, with poise, with grace, and with class.
I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.
God mode is something that I’ve always tried to unlock within myself.
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
My diabetes is such a central part of my life… it did teach me discipline… it also taught me about moderation… I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant… because I feel better when I am in control.
I’ll speak for myself, but there’s a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
I have three assistants, but there isn’t a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
I take a lot of pride in being myself. I’m comfortable with who I am.
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
I’d like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
I don’t consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
I’ve always had high expectations of myself. I’ve never felt that there was anything I couldn’t do in this world.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it’s really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
The pressure I give myself from within is what drives me.
I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.
I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
You’ll be someone‘s favourite, and someone else is going to hate you, aren’t they? I know that I can’t please everyone, but what I can do is be myself and be true to my values.
I’m not a religious person. I’m Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.
I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.
I’m a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.
I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that’s what I do.
I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.
I like to think of myself as classy.
I don’t have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
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.
I’m constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.
I’ll always keep fighting, keep being myself and be as respectful as I can be to stay as true to myself as I can and stay humble.
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I’m going to think about myself.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.
I’ve done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don’t wait for people to come to us and say, ‘Help us organize something.’ We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.
I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.
I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
I just want to be myself.
Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won’t lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it’s just the character, not me.
I’m not trying to be different. To me, I’m just being myself.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
I’m overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.
If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that’s pretty good.
I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn’t going to be that way any more.
To be honest, I am very comfortable with myself.
I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
I don’t think a lot of people understand the situations I’ve been involved in and the way I grew up. I took myself away from it and made something out of a bad situation.
I’m gonna forget all the negative press and focus on being the best version of myself.
To be honest, ‘Ready Steady Cook’ was a great opportunity, but I did compromise myself. I was stood there quizzing chefs on what they were doing when I knew exactly what they were doing and why.
The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.
I keep lot of my opinions to myself.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people‘s lives… for that I give thanks.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can’t have all of them for myself.
I’ve realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it’s getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.
My supplements are similar to my training – I always commit to being a better version of myself.
I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order.
I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
I always tell myself, ‘There are so many things you regret doing or eating, but you never regret a workout.’ I always feel better after a workout. I have more energy, and mentally, I’m in a better place.
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
I’ve learned that I can’t have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
I have lots of friends, but I’m probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
I’m surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I’m doing for the next generation.
When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.
God has entrusted me with myself.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
I don’t like defining myself. I just am.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that’s one of the best ways to be.
Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.
I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design, and all in all, I can look back on my collegiate experience and say that I really did enjoy myself.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
I don’t walk around looking into cameras and telling people I’m the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packages of cigarettes, and fighting Chael Sonnen may be hazardous to one’s health.
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
I would like to think of myself as destiny‘s child.
In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
I’m not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What’s wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
I’m a Republican. I may go into politics myself.
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
I feel like anything I’m doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I’ve always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’
I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.
I like to challenge myself. I like to learn – so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
Responsibility for me is to be myself – which is not perfect.
During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.
I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.
Win or lose, I’ll feel good about myself. That’s what is important.
The more I thought to myself, ‘Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?’ the worse it was… one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that’s the extent you will be in pain.
I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
I’m very sure of myself – what I do and what I like.
Even at my lowest point, when I’ve wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I’m all that I have.
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.
That’s all I want, to keep losing myself.
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
Strangely enough, as I explored these abandoned malls, I found myself acting like a kid all over again. At times jumping up on to nearby fountain ledges trying to balance myself as I became mesmerized all over again by the futuristic skylights that dangled fearlessly over my head.
I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.
I don’t consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I’m not here to tell people what to rap about.
For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.
I trust no one, not even myself.
I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.
I’m happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it’s a weird, like, ‘Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’
I reckon I’ve done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.
I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.
I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
When I set myself a target, I aim to reach it.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
I don’t do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
I don’t really be putting no limitations or projections on myself. I just go do it.
I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
Each goal, each win, going to different buildings, the rivalries, the excitement – it is something. I try to catch myself, you know, in the warm-ups, when you’re on the line and the anthem and you get to some milestones and stuff. It’s such a neat experience.
Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, ‘Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?’ You just can’t get stressed about the little things ’cause it’s just not worth it at the end of the day.
I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I’m going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.
The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself.
I’ve got to be happy with myself when this ride is over.
I don’t consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
I’ve always told the truth. I think that’s been part of the foundation of my career. I don’t put myself above people. I don’t put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist.
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.
I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.
I’m not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I myself never feel that I’m sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.
I listen to myself, listen to my heart.
When I give I give myself.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
I don’t like the word ‘poetry,’ and I don’t like poetry readings, and I usually don’t like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I’m kind of a curator, and I’m kind of a night-owl reporter.
I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I’m looking forward to some new perspectives.
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It’s very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don’t view myself as a political person. I’m just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people… that’s why I don’t like any of them.
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
I think my riding has hopefully gotten a lot better, but I’m always trying to push myself.
I’ve learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
Organic food is the best for you, and I’m eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It’s all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.
I’m just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China‘s development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
I always put myself second – I like to make others happy.
To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
I couldn’t be more proud of my little sister and the mother she is and am also incredibly proud of my mom and the huge influence she’s had on myself, my sisters, and now her grandchildren.
I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
I don’t know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, ‘Is this just a dream?’
I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I’ve done all I can to prepare, that’s when I race the best and in ’09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.
Before I start, I search the internet for hours looking for inspiration – I look at horror movies, special effects, everything. Then, I take a bunch of screenshots, and pile them together in Photoshop to create a story for myself. I plan it out in my head, but I don’t ever practice beforehand.
I don’t play a character. It’s totally just an extension of myself.
I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.
I know myself, I’m learning myself. I’m growing, I’m maturing.
I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself – I regret letting that happen.
It’s good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.
I only answer to two people, myself and God.
I see myself as a player for whom there are no limits.
Everything I do, I do it being myself.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.
I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I’m here to support the human evolution.
I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It’s important if you want to create a successful brand.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don’t do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That’s how the game should be played.
You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.
It took me years to realize that ‘normal’ is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.
There are times I can’t even figure myself out.
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.
I never allow myself to be pressured.
Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
I like myself better when I’m writing regularly.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don’t. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.
I’m happy with being myself.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
I can’t believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I’m 41, and I still feel like I haven’t found myself onstage.
Humpty’ was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.
I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don’t flaunt religion in conversation with others.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
I avoid social media and articles written about me, because I’m human and negative comments pollute my head and make me feel confused about myself.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
I’m just myself. That’s the best way to put it.
I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.
I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
I didn’t see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
I’m a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.
I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.
The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I’m not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.
I’ve worked on a variety of campaigns and fought for a variety of conservative causes for a long time. But it wasn’t until I came back from my military service that I realized I needed to devote myself to others.
I didn’t want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.
I’m only competing with myself.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don’t have any opinions.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
I kinda live where I find myself.
I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
I like to be consistent so I like to challenge myself with consistency.
I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.
I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
I am not supernatural. I’m just myself.
I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it’s a safe place where I can be myself.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’
All I’ve ever needed is myself.
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
I don’t see myself as a one-man show.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
I always wanted to win, but I only used to get upset if I hadn’t done myself and the people around me proud – that was my motivation for always wanting to do better.
I’m being myself when the camera is rolling.
There’s always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That’s how you stay in the race.
I believe in myself and maybe people take that as cocky and flash but in this game you have to believe in yourself or you won’t get anywhere.
I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
I am a mystery to myself.
I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don’t look back on the good old days.
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
Don’t focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
I really don’t have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.
I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
Obviously, when I play well and win a trophy, I feel happy about myself.
I didn’t like the person I was growing up to become. I needed to find myself and my identity. And for me, getting out of my comfort zone, getting away from the people I grew up with, and finding adventure, that was my odyssey, and it was the best decision I ever made.
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
While acting in ‘W,’ my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point.
I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.
I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
I don’t like to filter myself, but I do it for PR’s sake.
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
I like to express myself through the clothes that I wear.
I’m self-motivated. I’m motivated for myself to be the best I can be – for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.
I think I’m just always myself, and I think that’s what’s most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.
It’s just like, damn – I’m competing with myself.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
One thing I’ve done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
I can’t tone it down. I’m being me and being myself.
I speak three languages. I’m pretty handsome myself.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
I don’t imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.
For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
In real life, I’m the type of girl who doesn’t take herself too seriously. I’m very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.
I’m in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.
I hate watching myself on screen. I can’t stand it.
I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn’t look like that guy in the pictures.
I really don’t consider myself a man or a woman. I just kind of float in between and that’s how I’ve always felt.
I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.
I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn’t spend all of my time in either place.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
I remember when I was a child… walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
I’ve never had any religion. I’d prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn’t make myself believe.
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.
If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
I don’t like seeing myself on television. I don’t like it.
Sometimes, I myself, even though I’m in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
I’m confident in who I am, and I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I’m figuring out who I am.
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
I appreciate that my fans think I’m classically good-looking and that I have a clean-cut image, but I also want to show other sides of myself.
That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I’ve always called myself an illustrator. I’m not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
I have always… expected a lot from myself.
If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
I worked with a skateboarding instructor for three hours every day. We would go to the park and do ramps. I had to wear a ridiculous amount of gear – elbow pads, knee pads, every kind of pad, plus a helmet – to stop myself from getting hurt.
I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I’m an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
I don’t remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.
I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
I wouldn’t limit myself to nothing. I feel like I am limitless.
I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
I feel like I’m the chosen one, but I chose myself.
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it’s a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it’s something I really enjoy.
I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it’s not fair because they’re not setting the same goals for themselves.
Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.
It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It’s like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you’re in the street, listening to people, you’re forced to be in the service of your subject.
In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.
I am pretty happy with myself. I am not saying I am flawless, but I am content with the way I am.
I’m having fun. I’m being myself. I’m doing what I love. That’s all that matters.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
I would like to say this for the record: that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself, and that’s really important.
What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
I don’t mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn’t tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.
For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I’m not perfect, it’s really frustrating. I’m really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.
I have gotten better at saying to myself, ‘Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.’
I restore myself when I’m alone.
I don’t look at negative comments because my parents and family don’t let me. My big sister controls my Instagram, and my big brother controls my Twitter. I also don’t really Google myself or anything like that.
I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.
I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.
I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.
I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.
I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
