Top 100 Making Your Own Quotes
#1. Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. All
Krista Ritchie
#3. I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
Amber Riley
#4. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.
Christofer Emgard
#5. I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.
Willie Geist
#6. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.
Pico Iyer
#7. I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.
Michael Winslow
#8. What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.
Julia Glass
#9. Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.
Megan Frampton
#10. Travelling on the known path is intelligence;
travelling on an unknown path is boldness.
Making your own path is greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That's the beauty of it all." I smile softly. "Do you have a big family?" "I do," he says, "but most of us aren't blood related.
J.M. Darhower
#12. Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
Brittany Murphy
#13. Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
Eric Betzig
#14. What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
Peter Diamandis
#15. I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
Dennis Quaid
#16. Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
Gus Van Sant
#17. Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good.
David Chiles
#18. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
Prince William
#19. I wanted to develop some hobbies. So far, I hadn't really developed any, but I did have a growing collection of empty wine bottles. That could be a hobby. And I had bookmarked several articles on making your own soap. In case, you know, soap ever wasn't readily available.
N.M. Silber
#20. You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.
Dwight Howard
#21. In a world full of experts, making your own mistakes is invaluable
Georgina Zuvela
#22. I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
Avicii
#23. Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
Aimee Mullins
#24. Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
Arlo Guthrie
#25. Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.
David Sedaris
#27. Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.
Adam Schlesinger
#28. Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!
Mini Grey
#29. Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.
Charles Saatchi
#30. No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#31. Knowledge is power. Power in the aspect of making your own mind up;and, not accepting what others tell you.
Temitope Owosela
#32. With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words.
Auliq Ice
#33. I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
David Byrne
#34. Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.
Timothy Leary
#35. Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They're like friendly ghosts. I can almost feel them pushing me forward as I'm hunched over my desk.
Austin Kleon
#36. Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
Nancy Gibbs
#37. Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.
Michael Kiwanuka
#39. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.
Tom Brokaw
#40. I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.
Michael Yamashita
#41. It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#42. I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
Alexa Vega
#43. Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.
Steven Redhead
#44. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
Joel Edgerton
#46. What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living.
Keith Ferrazzi
#47. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.
Alexandra Robbins
#48. The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#49. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.
Donald Trump
#50. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
Emily Oster
#51. He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.
Margaret Atwood
#52. Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
Tim Burton
#53. I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.
John Darnielle
#54. I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.
Naval Ravikant
#55. They need to control you through your emotions, making you a slave to the state by destroying your individuality, and your ability to react to situations based on your own experience of the world.
Yeonmi Park
#56. By making other people happy,you can ensure your own happiness.
K.J. Kilton
#57. It's bad enough that your happiness is conditional upon your own behavior. When you start making it conditional upon other people's behavior, you're in serious trouble.
Anonymous
#58. You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I'm sure you'll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.
Stephenie Meyer
#59. Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.
Tite Kubo
#60. Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
Cheryl James
#62. Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.
Frank Stella
#63. Listen to your gut, her father was fond of saying, but make up your own damn mind.
Jeremy Robinson
#64. So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conclusion for yourself as to what life is all about.
Catherine Marshall
#65. your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making." Elias
Sabaa Tahir
#66. The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
Hannibal Buress
#67. Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
John Geddes
#68. Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
Werner Herzog
#69. With or without realizing it, every successful person has created behaviors - systems for greeting people, networking, and making telephone calls to aid them in their pursuits. By observing the traits of successful people, you can create your own system for success.
Ryan Blair
#70. Pay attention to what your body is telling you about your own wants and needs. Find the rhythms in your cycles. There is wisdom in our biology. Above all, do what feels best. Making healthy choices feels good. This is not deprivation. It is nourishment on all levels. It is the opposite of neglect.
Julie Holland
#71. Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.
Gillian Jacobs
#72. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#73. Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.
Craig Sheffer
#74. I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
Patricia Heaton
#75. We hope to help you discover Your Self; inspire you to live more passionate and sensitive life; helping you listen to your Soul, finding your-own space in this matrix of life, making a genuine contribution to humanity.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#76. Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch
#77. Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ...
Jane Hirshfield
#78. my joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You've got to get free from that.
Joel Osteen
#79. You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
Barack Obama
#80. Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.
Timothy Leary
#81. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give you victory. Your emptiness - is but the preparation for your being filled; and your casting down - is but the making ready for your lifting up!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. Strange how when you're young you have no memories ... Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.
Douglas Coupland
#83. Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.
William Merritt Chase
#84. The world is a stage where people come to play their own part and leave, your contribution to making the world a much better place matters.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#85. Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.
Stefan Zweig
#86. If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.
Lisa Kleypas
#87. Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.
Lily Tomlin
#88. Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. But it is one thing to remember, another to know. Remembering is merely safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing, however, means making everything your own; it means not depending upon the copy and not all the time glancing back at the master.
Seneca.
#90. When you are working well with your
energy, you are also making the best
expression of your personal power ... By
reading your own energy, by becoming
aware of the lens through which you see
your world, you can change your mind and change your life.
Caroline Myss
#91. So, back in the day, weird people threatened the strength of the tribe. If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own." "But we're not primitive like that anymore." "Oh, yes, we are. Weird people still get banished." "You mean weird people like
Sherman Alexie
#92. You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then ... you go your own way.
Sabrina Bryan
#93. There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Robert Fitzgerald
#94. Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?
Danny Meyer
#95. There is no hell after death to which your God can condemn us. We create our own hell here on earth by making the wrong choices. Life is not something that "happens to us" , it's something that we create and shape ourselves......
Karin Alvtegen
#96. Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative.
Lucas Samaras
#97. I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
David Cronenberg
#98. If you are not concerned about what you do, you will not say so. When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat. That is all. If you say, "It doesn't matter," it means that you are making some excuse to do something in your own way with your small mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#99. A lot of people mock fandom and fan fiction, like it's lazy to base your own creativity and passion on someone else's work. But some of us need a stepping-stone to start. What's wrong with finding joy in making something, regardless of the inspiration?
Felicia Day
#100. When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real.
Thomas Pynchon
