Top 99 My Own Opinion Quotes
#1. It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It's at least partially because I survived you that I'm the person I am today.
Kieran Scott
#2. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#3. My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.
Emily Browning
#5. The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
Byron Katie
#6. Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.
Wayne Dyer
#7. I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
Robert MacNeil
#8. I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.
Gherman Titov
#9. Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#10. I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#11. In the old days ... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough
#12. I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.
Suzy Menkes
#13. Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.
Maria Bamford
#14. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Robert Anton Wilson
#15. I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
Jane Austen
#16. I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Henry L. Stimson
#17. The shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning!
... But my recorded opinions definitely reflect my growing up for me, sometimes we do grow up in 3 seconds after we express something! ... yes we do!
Madura Aka Tirunelveli Tamizhachchi
#18. If I wanted to be agreed with or fed my own opinion I would be sitting in front of a mirror, not a computer. If I was concerned with a stranger's opinion of me I would have a gun in my hand, not a keyboard.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#19. My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.
Christopher Hitchens
#20. My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#21. My own opinion is that if I keep juggling, then all the balls will stay in the air and my comeuppance will never come down, however richly deserved.
Mark Lawrence
#22. I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.
Brian O'Driscoll
#23. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.
Emily Browning
#24. People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.
Deborah Cox
#25. I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.
Nelson Mandela
#26. Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'
John Carroll Lynch
#27. Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator ... If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#28. I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks
#29. My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#30. He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-'
'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.
Toni Morrison
#31. I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.
Michel De Montaigne
#32. I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
Jeff Bridges
#33. Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart.
Tanya Masse
#34. It has always been my opinion that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.
Shirley Jackson
#35. In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
John C. Calhoun
#36. I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.
Dick Francis
#37. It did not then cross my mind that they, like religious apologists, might have any personal reasons for holding to this disbelief. It certainly did not cross my mind that I had any low motives for it. Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue.
Peter Hitchens
#38. If I'm to listen to someone else's opinion, it must be put in a positive way; I have enough problematic speculations in my own head
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#39. In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#40. No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still
that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.
Muriel Spark
#41. You don't care what anyone thinks about you,' he said.
'That's crazy,' she said. 'I care what everyone thinks about me.'
'I can't tell,' he said. 'You just seem like yourself, no matter what's happening around you. My grandmother would say you're comfortable in your own skin.
Rainbow Rowell
#42. No, it's not!" says Emby.
"Hey - he wanted my opinion, I gave it."
"But it's wrong!"
"You see, Hayden? You see what you started?"
"Yes!" Hayden says excitedly. "It looks like we're about to have our own little Heartland War. Pity it's too dark for us to watch it.
Neal Shusterman
#43. I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I just want to take you down the 50-yard line and let you form your own opinion of what the controversy [of a movie] is about.
Ric Roman Waugh
#44. I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#45. My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#46. It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.
Liz Becker
#47. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
John Le Carre
#48. Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
Keith Olbermann
#49. My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.
Agatha Christie
#50. For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
Joseph Addison
#51. In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
Roy Hattersley
#52. Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
John Bradshaw
#53. One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
Delroy Lindo
#54. The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.
Tony McCoy
#55. I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.
Bertrand Russell
#56. If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.
Joyce Carol Oates
#57. Women have the right to choose what do with their own bodies. They can take it in the cooch or in the pooper. But that's where their right to choose stops, in my opinion.
Zach Braff
#58. The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.
Lenny Kravitz
#59. It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.
Colleen Truscott Fry
#60. I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion ... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
William Cobbett
#61. I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.
Paula Heller Garland
#62. In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.
Kevin Focke
#63. I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.
Ira Kaplan
#64. You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
Lloyd Blankfein
#65. Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron
#66. I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.
Peter Ackroyd
#67. I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.
Ivanka Trump
#69. The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species
Johann Gottfried Herder
#70. Even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?
David Sedaris
#71. I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.
Avi
#72. I lamented in every gathering;
I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances.
(But) everyone became my friend from his (own) opinion;
he did not seek my secrets from within me.
My secret is not far from my lament,
but eyes and ears do not have the light (to sense it.
Rumi
#73. I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.
Angelina Jolie
#74. [She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.
Jane Austen
#75. I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.
Deepak Chopra
#76. But don't I have any freedom of speech?"
"In your own house. Not in mine."
"Don't I have a right to my own ideas?"
"At your own expense. Not at mine."
"Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?"
"Not when I'm paying the bills.
Ayn Rand
#77. No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#78. My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Thomas Hardy
#79. I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Patrick Ness
#80. I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.
Ashley Tisdale
#81. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. People should be allowed to express their opinion. But, Americans need to know I'll be making up my mind based upon the latest intelligence and how best to protect our own country, plus our friends and allies.
George W. Bush
#83. Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.
David Chang
#84. What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.
Brandi Chastain
#85. I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.
David Lloyd
#86. The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.
Alan Cumming
#87. I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#88. If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.
Eka Kurniawan
#89. But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
#90. I have an opinion. I have my own taste.
Miley Cyrus
#91. In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.
Joost Meerloo
#92. I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".
Raymond Keene
#93. Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.
Marilyn Manson
#94. I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
Ivan Turgenev
#95. To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
Frances Burney
#96. But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn's opinion of what I was already thinking of as my "sighting" rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts.
William Gibson
#97. I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.
Natalie Maines
#98. I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.
Andrew Levitas
