Top 100 Fool Yourself Quotes
#2. There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
John Searles
#3. If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?
Janet Evanovich
#4. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.
Rebecca Scherm
#5. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#6. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.
Hilari Bell
#7. You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.
Kaye Gibbons
#8. Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.
Frank Sinatra
#9. Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
Richard Branson
#10. Somedays will eat you alive. They're promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#11. And you can fool yourself if you're raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn't true. We're rubes too.
Victor LaValle
#12. To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.
Robert Ferrigno
#13. You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.
Shayla Black
#14. Love and pride will never dwell together, never ! Do not fool yourself, God and the devil will never share the same space. Therefore, drop your pride and experience love.
Khuliso Mamathoni
#15. Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it's easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing is terrible for vanity and self-delusion.
Mark Vonnegut
#16. Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
Harlan Coben
#17. You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
Ann Powers
#18. How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.
Joan Rivers
#19. You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
Jodi Picoult
#20. You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Easy means hard. Don't fool yourself. When everything looks great, something is wrong.
Kambiz Shabankareh
#22. The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Relationships based on dishonesty, lies,
Secrets and cheats R not only predicted
to fail but also a waste of precious time
and energie! U can't fool yourself 4ever!
Lily Amis
#24. You can fool people in public, but you will never fool truth even in private. You can fool yourself a thousand times, but you cannot fool God even once.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.
A Gentlemen
#26. Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
Robert Caro
#27. Well, there's nothing like trying to fool yourself into believing something that's a blatant lie.
Giovanna Fletcher
#28. You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
Whitney Houston
#29. Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist. It's a fine line to walk, but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed. He
Patrick Rothfuss
#30. I turned to love and love said, Don't trip, I'm still here and stop trying to fool yourself, I ain't going nowhere. You'll always have me.
Stanley Christopher
#31. Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
Christy Hall
#32. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.
Don Maynard
#33. Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.
James Rozoff
#34. It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.
Harry Bates Thayer
#35. You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.
Nenia Campbell
#36. Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
Joyce Brothers
#37. Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Criss Jami
#38. I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Bill Veeck
#39. Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.
Deepak Chopra
#40. Don't fool yourself by look so humble
whereas the thing you want is respect.
Toba Beta
#41. You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them ... but you can not fool yourself
Abraham Lincoln
#42. Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
Andrew Sullivan
#43. If you decide to help someone
And you expect something in return
Don't fool yourself...
That's "business", not KINDNESS.
Jose N. Harris
#44. Don't fool yourself that they don't know. You might not admit that the sun exists, but it exists anyway.
Elise Valmorbida
#45. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
#46. Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
Mignon McLaughlin
#47. The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.
Paulo Coelho
#48. Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself
Ziggy Marley
#49. We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It's no matter that this dye doesn't fool you. My lady, you don't dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.
Luigi Pirandello
#50. Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
Chris Murray
#51. Don't fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because we're afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the world a better place.
Tana French
#52. I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.
Richard P. Feynman
#53. Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is,
Lily Collins
#54. My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.
Danzy Senna
#55. Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
Ayn Rand
#56. Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.
Eric Thomas
#57. Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. ( ... ) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.
John Osborne
#58. Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.
Carl Sagan
#61. It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.
Mick Jagger
#62. You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.
Alison Goodman
#63. But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!
George MacDonald
#64. Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.
Ma Huateng
#65. Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#66. With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh Jackman
#67. When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
Patricia Wentworth
#68. So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?
I had a bigger hole to fill.
What do you mean?
A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.
Michka Assayas
#69. You have proved yourself, Emma," he said. "You could ride with Gwyn, if you chose." "The Wild Hunt doesn't allow women," she pointed out, the words torn from her mouth by the wind. "The more fool they," he said. "Women are fiercer by far than men.
Cassandra Clare
#70. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
Robert Greene
#71. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
Gelsey Kirkland
#73. You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
Rian Johnson
#74. The moment you admit someone into your heart you make yourself a fool,
Yiyun Li
#75. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself
Charlie Chaplin
#76. Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.
Sandra Brown
#77. When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
Cesar Romero
#78. The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#79. What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.
Aya Cash
#80. Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
Robert Fulghum
#81. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
#82. In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.
Peter Scolari
#83. To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
Carl Sandburg
#84. Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
Tom Robbins
#85. You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you. I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her.
Maya Angelou
#86. Can you add a quote from yourself? That would be pointless, what sort of fool would do that?
RJ Barker
#87. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#88. So whatever you want to do, just do it ... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
Gloria Steinem
#89. There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.
Richard Llewellyn
#90. Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That's still what you're worried about. That you'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you'll make a fool of yourself.
Kelley Armstrong
#91. Take advantage of this human boat;
Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!
This vessel will be later hard to find.
The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!
Shantideva
#92. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.
Bob Marley
#93. Once you learn to take the pain of admitting to yourself you were fooled, you increasingly become ready to take the pain to those that fooled you.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#94. Don't you ever do that to me."
"You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.
Elizabeth Wein
#95. rejoice and make a fool of yourself for God the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love." - Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words
Richard J. Foster
#96. Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.
Mark Helprin
#97. Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?
Dan Groat
#98. You can fool a lot of the people some of the time, and a few of the people most of the time, but the only person you can fool all of the time is yourself.
Bruce T. Clark
#99. Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.
Shirley Henderson
#100. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
Haruki Murakami
