If You Lie To Yourself Quotes

#1. If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.

Alice Walker

#2. You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#3. I've learned, in my tragic little life, that memories are like water. Not solid, like some people think. Once something happens, it isn't set it stone. It can change.

You can make yourself believe anything if you lie to yourself enough.

Dawn Kurtagich

#4. If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.

Tyler Perry

#5. Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar ... is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?"
"Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?

Julie Anne Long

#6. Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

Afrojack

#8. Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What's the difference? It is easy - if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money.

F. Marco-Serrano

#9. Any time you catch folks lying, they are scared of something. Lying is dodging. People with guts don't lie. They tell the truth and then if they have to, they fight it out. You lay yourself open by lying..Nothing can lick you if you never get scared.

Zora Neale Hurston

#10. Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#11. Embrace thy need for truth. Be your own seeker. Lie to others if you must but never to yourself.

Truth Devour

#12. Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#13. If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.

Tony Robbins

#14. It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#16. When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#17. Lie to yourself if you want, but you're not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn't really
want it.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Orson Scott Card

#19. When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

Barry Long

#20. Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#21. It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows ... even if that one is you.

Michelle Horst

#22. The point is to learn to live with roots inside yourself, instead of a thousand stupid rules to guide your day. Who are you without your rules, Elsie? Who would you find if you had the guts to just lie still and let go?

Debora Geary

#23. Lie down there in the shade and sleep, and I will soon build the castle for you. If it would be a pleasure to you, you can live in it yourself.

Jacob Grimm

#24. If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that are
grounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don't
cheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.

Richie Norton

#25. If you can't bring yourself to encourage employees to lie down on the job, at least give them plenty of breaks. The ordinary fatigue most of us feel during the workday makes us grouchier - and dumber - as the hours go by.

Robert I. Sutton

#26. You can lie to yourself if you want, but reality is going to catch up with you. I'll be waiting when it does ... whether you like it or not.

Kody Keplinger

#27. You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself. If you fail, you forget it. If you win, you tell everyone.

David McRaney

#28. If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!

Paolo Koeljo

#29. 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

#30. You might tell yourself that candor is the foundation of a relationship, but even that would be untrue. You are far more likely to lie to yourself, or your loved one, if you think it will keep the pain at bay.

Jodi Picoult

#31. It wasn't easy, but like I've always said, if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to? The food

Seanan McGuire

#32. Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

Joan Jett

#33. Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.

Meredith Duran

#34. I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson

#35. Even if you lie to me ... that's okay. I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can give me.

Yun Kouga

#36. How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you? It is worth finding out.

Sam Harris

#37. You're mine, and I will not give you up. Not today, not tomorrow, not fucking ever. You do not tell me what I deserve. You do not lie to me. You do not hide. You do not put up a front for my benefit. And you do not put yourself down. Are we clear? Nod if we are.

Elle Aycart

#38. I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

Rabih Alameddine