Top 100 By Your Own Quotes
#1. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?
Archibald Marwizi
#2. You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.
Jaggi Vasudev
#3. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.
Leonard Sax
#4. A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
Tabatha Coffey
#5. If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison
#6. Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
Jaggi Vasudev
#7. Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn't come in one form, it determined by your own heart.
Ai Yazawa
#8. The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
Dainin Katagiri
#9. You are the architect of your owner destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
Brian Tracy
#10. Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.
Rajneesh
#11. Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don't get what you want.
Sherry Argov
#12. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
#13. Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#14. I think my mother ... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
Caroline Kennedy
#15. You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care ...
John Geddes
#16. This is likely because you're so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren't receptive to inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#17. You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.
A.S. Byatt
#18. Sickness burrowed deep inside you, and even if you were cured, even if you could be cured, you would never forget how it felt to be betrayed by your own body. So when he knocked on doors, carrying donated meals, he did not tell the sick to get well. He just came to sit with them while they weren't.
Brit Bennett
#19. If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Felix Adler
#21. I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
Bonnie Hunt
#22. Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.
Emily Mortimer
#23. It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
Attila The Hun
#24. Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.
Glynis Johns
#25. The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes.
Peter Weiss
#26. Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.
Terry Rossio
#27. Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
Akira Yoshizawa
#28. Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors. And whenever it strikes you how much power you have over your slave, let it also strike you that your own master has just as much power over you.
Seneca.
#29. There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.
Harvey MacKay
#30. Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.
John Kessel
#31. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
J.K. Rowling
#32. Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.
Jubal
#33. Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#34. Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature
Epictetus
#36. The very fact we use the term "cold-blooded" as a synonym for "heartless" should tell you something about the innate bias we primates hold against reptiles. Do not judge other species by your own social norms.
Becky Chambers
#37. What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.
Dale Maharidge
#38. You can't be trapped by other people. You can only be trapped by your own fear. Defy and win.
Michael Grant
#39. The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
Bertrand Russell
#40. If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.
Peace Pilgrim
#41. Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Michelle Obama
#42. You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP
John Paul Warren
#44. When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
Bonnie Hunt
#45. You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.
Charles Stanley
#47. Your opponent will often be blind to your design, being consumed with his own. Do not subconsciously seek accolades of your ingenuity and thus call attention - be sated by your own approval. Be confident you will win.
Shannon Kirk
#48. Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
Watchman Nee
#49. You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise ... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
Philippa Gregory
#50. Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.
Miyamoto Musashi
#51. Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
Neil Young
#52. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
Robert Harris
#54. You will serve your husband dinner tonight by your own hand ... not because you are beneath him ... because you are more.
Jennifer Probst
#55. Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ...
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions
Adil Adam Memon
#56. Your Judgment is your own, and when you can look inward and see that you are changed and like what you see, then it is by your own hand that you are judged.
Jennifer Murgia
#57. A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
Paul Theroux
#58. Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
Anne Sweeney
#59. By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
Gautama Buddha
#60. Live by your own rules. Dont let anybody hold you back. Be different and be yourself. You only get to live once, so make it whatever you want it to be.
A.T. Veatch
#61. Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan L. Taylor
#62. One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
Kim Edwards
#63. By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
Gautama Buddha
#65. Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
Aimee Mullins
#66. Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.
Angelina Maccarone
#68. The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.
Dean Cavanagh
#69. The direction in which you head is determined by your own conscious decision to go there, and no one can take that away from you. -Bryce Clark in Fulfillment (Book 3 in The Temptation Series)
K.M. Golland
#70. Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
Carl Sagan
#71. If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
Monica Crowley
#72. Stand by your own honorable convictions before the putrid stench of others permanently stains you.
Hank Bracker
#73. Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
David Brainerd
#75. You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.
James Cameron
#77. You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.
Henry B. Eyring
#78. Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart. ... Forgiveness sets you free.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
#79. The minute you think you have gotten on God's good side by your own behavior, you are naturally prone to demonize those who haven't.
Jefferson Bethke
#80. The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.
DJ Ashba
#81. Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires.
S. Jae-Jones
#82. Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.
Paulo Coelho
#83. Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.
Andy Serkis
#85. Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?
Ayn Rand
#86. Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you perceive yourself. If you believe in yourself that confidence shines through and others will believe in you too.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#87. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
Kirk Kerkorian
#88. Nothing happens by itself ... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein
#89. By your own soul, learn to live.
If some men force you, take no heed.
If some men hate you, have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dreams
Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.
Bo Schembechler
#90. I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible - I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.
Stephen Colbert
#91. You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don't want to be left out of the scene around them.
Jaggi Vasudev
#92. Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs.
Stephen Richards
#93. Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
Zoe Kazan
#94. One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
Michael Ignatieff
#95. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#96. One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
Joseph Prince
#97. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.
Josemaria Escriva
#98. I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.
Amanda Palmer
#99. Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family.
Wes Fesler
#100. You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Nikki Giovanni
