Top 100 Make Your Own Quotes
#1. The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
#2. And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.
Elena Ferrante
#3. One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
Stephen Fry
#4. I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.
Linda Ellerbee
#5. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.
Christopher Paolini
#6. There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
Ricky Skaggs
#7. Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#10. A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
Katherine Paterson
#11. 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
#12. I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings
#13. Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.
Katherine Paterson
#14. But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right.
Django Wexler
#15. Make your own decisions. Make your own choices.
Lisa Mangum
#16. It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.
Ani DiFranco
#17. All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we exposed them the better. The whole concept of role models is frightful! You gotta make your own role.
William S. Burroughs
#19. Never ever go by the book. They will want you to, but you musn't. If the lust is too strong, tear one page from a hundred books and make your own way. There is no formula for life, no equation on how to be a human being.
Christopher Poindexter
#21. Often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy?
Thich Nhat Hanh
#22. It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.
Michael Keaton
#23. The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper
#24. Better to sail alone, and let the battered vessel wander where it will. The only honest course. Assume nothing, trust no one, encumber not and be not encumbered, make your own way, steer your own ship and none other, exactly so.
Brian Doyle
#25. Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.
Erica Goros
#26. You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
Max Brooks
#27. Learning how to make your own fun and discover things on your own is something that is applicable to any job, any relationship, any trip, any adventure in life.
Robin Hunicke
#29. But, my wolf, compassion is often mistaken for weakness when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it. The one thing I know that's even more powerful is the courage it takes to forge your own path, make your own mark and in doing so, make change.
Kristen Ashley
#30. Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
Phil Ochs
#31. I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.
Rob Zombie
#32. You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#33. Make your own Miracles, don't wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy to make them real.
Steven Redhead
#34. In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.
Ben Aaronovitch
#35. There are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's. Astounded
Susan Meissner
#36. Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you've got to make your own way.
Saoirse Ronan
#37. It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one.
Anthony McDonald
#38. One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
Herbie Mann
#39. It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
Taylor Hackford
#40. About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
Edna Ferber
#41. Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny.
Karina Halle
#42. In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
Peter Greenaway
#43. There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.
Elle Fanning
#44. The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.
You are deciding your life right now.
Meg Ray
#46. Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins.
C. JoyBell C.
#47. Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you ... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
Will Durant
#48. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don't let others tell you how to live according to theirs. When
Rachel Brathen
#49. I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
Tom Brokaw
#50. You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.
Peter Rogers
#51. The point is, you are capable of change! Life is what you make of it! Use this self-help program to make it all you want it to be. Don't spend your life waiting for your luck to change. Make your own good luck by changing the way you respond. Go for it! The rewards are immeasurable.
Jonathan Berent
#52. Everybody have own life don't copy anyone's life style make your own.
AbdulNasir
#53. When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
Charles Finch
#54. When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#55. I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
Prince William
#56. Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents' paths, your parents' rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
Veronica Roth
#57. You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.
John Taylor Gatto
#58. True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's.
Lisa Renee Jones
#59. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.
Susan Meissner
#60. Copy everything you see on television, from hair styles to the clothes and don't think too often, just do exactly how you were told, how your parents told you, and you will make your own personality that is you.
Auliq Ice
#61. Judgment doesn't always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.
Heather Day Gilbert
#62. It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.
D.A. Wallach
#64. It's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
Emma Watson
#65. The secret is this. You make your own happiness.
Harold Klemp
#66. You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
Ernest Hemingway,
#67. Every bullshit check out, read and watched makes me few percentage stupid and few with a lower IQ. So far you make your own judge!
Deyth Banger
#68. Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.
Sonia
#69. Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
Zygmunt Bauman
#70. Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD
Julia Cameron
#71. Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.
R.D. Ronald
#72. I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.
Lennon Parham
#74. Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'
Hannibal Buress
#75. If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.
Simon Toyne
#77. If you didn't grow up in a home that built your confidence and self esteem, make your own.
Maggie Young
#79. remember, there's no such thing as perfect anything. You make your own future out of the chaos life hands you. Life is a giant slot machine, and honey, God only gives you so many pulls.
Miranda Liasson
#80. If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
Tina Fey
#81. Allison, how you live your life is up to you. I can only give you the skills you need to survive. But eventually, you will have to make your own decisions, come to your own terms about what you are. You are Vampire, but what kind of monster you become is out of my hands.
Julie Kagawa
#82. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#83. Isn't it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?
Zack Love
#84. You're free to make your own choices, and you're free to pay the consequences.
Melanie Jacobson
#85. Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.
Jason Dolley
#86. Abortion is abortion. Maybe you should have more protected sex? But if you get raped and get pregnant why would you keep that kid? I believe you should make your own choice - you're human. That's for you and God to deal with afterwards.
Sean Price
#87. Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.
Jenna Fischer
#88. Because you couldn't make your own luck. You were either born with it or you weren't.
S.E. Jakes
#89. Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
Linus Pauling
#90. intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes
Karen Joy Fowler
#91. You have to make your own happy. You can't depend on other people for that.
Shelly Crane
#92. There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Richard O'Brien
#93. The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
Bette Midler
#94. When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
Gautama Buddha
#95. The best way to make your own dreams come true is to wake up
Paul Valery
#96. I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
Susan Orlean
#97. You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.
Ilana Glazer
#98. Don't listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it's the only way you'll learn.
Stewart Stafford
#99. He's evil," I said. "You're good. You must make your own choice.
Rick Riordan
#100. I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.
Michael Longley
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