Top 100 Be Your Own Quotes
#2. Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self ... When acting, you're someone else.
Sabrina Carpenter
#3. Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy
Rick Bass
#4. Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Douglas Horton
#5. In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.
Ted Dekker
#6. Be your own guide, confidant and advisor. Trust yourself above all others.
Truth Devour
#7. It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!
Isak Dinesen
#8. My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.
Rachel Sklar
#10. I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.
Anita Hill
#11. I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
Jane Austen
#12. If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.
Morrissey
#14. Don't depend on someone else if you can be your own master, Logan replied.
Karice Bolton
#15. The ultimate message of this book is terrifying: you may not know your own children, and, worse yet, your children may be unknowable to you. The stranger you fear may be your own son or daughter.
Sue Klebold
#16. But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.
Martine Murray
#17. It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
Anthony Burgess
#18. Be your own best friend and unlock the fountain of beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#19. This isn't a game. If you sign on, your body will no longer be your own. Modesty has no place, none whatsoever, in a slave's repertoire. You will do as you're told, when you're told, or be punished. If this isn't something you think you can handle, you'd better face that right now.
Claire Thompson
#20. It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Take pride in yourself. Be your own person.
Jack Lambert
#22. The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.
Shaun White
#23. An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
Akio Morita
#25. Write from truth, write from self.
Writing theory or conceptual writing may be
A way to create new forms or styles but in the end?
The Words Must Be Your Own.
R.M. Engelhardt
#27. Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
Gautama Buddha
#28. It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.
Gail Ann Dorsey
#29. An artist's work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.
Teresita Fernandez
#31. Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
Vladimir Nabokov
#32. Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.
Kirk DeMatas
#33. Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.
Karen White
#34. Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
Byron Katie
#37. Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.
Frank Sinatra
#38. If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.
Eddie Izzard
#39. She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own.
Margaret Atwood
#40. Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!
Kim Dotcom
#41. Are you anybody else's missing piece?'
'Not that I know of.'
'Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?'
'I can be someone's and still my own.'
'Well, maybe you don't want to be mine.'
'Maybe I do.
Shel Silverstein
#42. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings
Robin Hobb
#43. In life be your own person, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by the naysayers who follow the herd.
Aaron Lauritsen
#44. Don't you understand? The answer is inside each of you! Don't follow anyone else! Be your own leader! Lead yourselves!
Tim Dorsey
#45. You need to be your own individual.
Two Chainz
#46. It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Andrew Carnegie
#49. Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.
Snoop Dogg
#52. Have high regard for yourself. Be your own best friend.
Leon Nacson
#53. Don't be your own worst critic. If you're not confident in what you're saying, no one else will be either.
Travis Bradberry
#54. The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.
Dorothy Dunnett
#55. You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own.
Jeanette Winterson
#56. Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.
Patrick Wolf
#58. Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
Roger Zelazny
#59. Because if you can't be your own weird self on the internet, where can you be? And what would be the point?
Felicia Day
#60. With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
Romeo Miller
#61. It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own.
Lee Majors
#62. The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you've got to bounce off better work. It's matter of working.
Garry Winogrand
#63. Be your own guide, follow your own movement.
Heavy D
#64. Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#65. At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
Wyclef Jean
#66. If you want success, then be your own success story.
Steven Cuoco
#67. If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
Mary McCarthy
#69. But I hope you will
use your brains. Use your brains. Don't be distracted. Once you make that mistake, of being
distracted, over a man, your life will never be your own. You will get the burden, a woman always does.
Alice Munro
#71. You must find your own way. Unless you find it yourself, it will not be your own way and will take you nowhere. Earnestly live your truth as you have found it, act on the little you have understood. It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness
Roy Melvyn
#72. The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
Alan Keyes
#73. Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you,
Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you.
Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught,
Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.
Heavy D
#74. Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#75. You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul - be your own keeper.
Jennifer Lopez
#76. You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.
Gilberto Hernandez
#77. No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.
Chad Hurley
#78. You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.
Tiger Woods
#79. In spaces too small for light
to crawl I'll hide everything I own.
I'll keep you there for safety.
I'll build a shelter for your
fears. I'll be your own
suicide bomber, a
satellite in the
dwindling
orbits, a
mortal
Om.
Eric Gamalinda
#80. If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.
Johnny Weir
#81. Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.
Gautama Buddha
#82. When you fail to be your own boss,
You are giving somebody else the contract.
Richard Marcel I.
#83. You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
Charles Lamb
#84. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
#85. Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
Rip Torn
#86. The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
William Ellery Channing
#87. I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
Mary Gaitskill
#88. The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.
Valerie Cruz
#89. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.
Mike Epps
#90. Its time to stop needing anyone to be there for you, because in the end you relise no one understands so, lift ur head up smile even if it hurts and be your own hero.
Tilicia Haridat
#91. Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.
Danny Worsnop
#92. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
Frank Herbert
#93. The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.
David L. Felten
#94. Be your own work of art. Don't find yourself; invent yourself. 'Change Your Mind
Rod Judkins
#95. But maybe Lucy wasn't supposed to be your compass forever. Maybe she was there for you just long enough so you could learn how to be your own compass and find your own way." She winks at me. "The universe is a strange thing.
Julie Murphy
#96. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
Theodore Newton Vail
#97. Believe in yourself.
Carve your own path.
Build your own dreams.
Be your own hero.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. Embrace thy need for truth. Be your own seeker. Lie to others if you must but never to yourself.
Truth Devour
#99. Place bets on your dreams and be your own hero!
Joel Brown
#100. Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.
Marcus Aurelius
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