Top 100 Not Your Quotes
#1. Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.
Vir Das
#2. If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.
Ben Schnetzer
#3. Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
Zoroaster
#4. The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.
Hiroko Sakai
#5. Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way
Claude C. Hopkins
#6. In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.
Iyanla Vanzant
#7. If positivity is not your mindset, then reset
Josh Stern
#8. It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
Umair Haque
#9. If your opinion needs to be corrected than it is not your opinion.
Kim Yannayon
#10. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I
Omar Khayyam
#11. You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.
Elvis Costello
#12. Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.
Ingrid Weir
#13. When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
Ihara Saikaku
#14. If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
Richard V. Allen
#15. I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach
#16. Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
Ron Wyden
#17. You must have the score in your head, not your head in the score.
Hans Von Bulow
#18. Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
Raini Rodriguez
#19. He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands."
"Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it," she suggested
Jettie Necole
#20. So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.
Terence McKenna
#21. Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.
Eve Ensler
#22. To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
Epictetus
#23. Now I know thinking is not your strong suit, but look on the bright side, at least you'll have this little puzzler to keep you occupied for the next hour or so.
Jessica Verdi
#24. Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
Karen Salmansohn
#25. The Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind.
Elif Shafak
#26. Don't ever let anyone treat your life as a revolving door, In and out as they please. The world is supposed to revolve, not your life. No Circles.
Andrea L'Artiste
#27. You are not your grade; you are better than that. Grades are indicators of time management and a rate of success.
Anonymous
#28. May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
Leonard Cohen
#29. Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
Amy Tan
#30. Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.
Michel Foucault
#31. I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.
Michael Palin
#33. Perfection, my dear being,
is what you are.
Let not your mind
obscure your view.
Be still and be aware,
right where you are,
you cannot miss it.
Santosh Lamichhane
#34. Andrew dug a finger in Neil's cheek and forcibly turned his head away. "Don't look at me like that. I am not your answer, and you sure as fuck aren't mine.
Nora Sakavic
#35. You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
Anne Lamott
#36. When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
Joe Strummer
#37. The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
John Ortberg
#38. Put not your trust in things, but in men. And women.
Max Gladstone
#39. Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.
Richard Stallman
#40. Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.
Nirmala Srivastava
#41. That is not your decision to make," he says.
"Since I'm in love with her, it is my decision.
Katie McGarry
#42. Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.
Umar
#43. Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.
Lars Ulrich
#44. In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.
Tom Robbins
#45. It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don't like you, they're not your friends anyway.
Riff Raff
#46. I can only make one person happy each day.
Today is not your day.
Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.
- Frank the 70 year old secretary, chapter 9
Philip Gulley
#47. Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'
'It was your blade I needed' Tyrion said, 'not your love.
George R R Martin
#48. People are only proud of your achievements and success not your struggles.
M.F. Moonzajer
#49. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.
Ron Currie Jr.
#51. We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
Brit Marling
#52. Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#53. You forsake all that you hold dear,
for a dream that is not your own;
you would rather live a lie
than live your life alone
Lang Leav
#54. If someone spreads hate then they're not your religious leader.
Stephen Colbert
#55. You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
#56. Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.
Lord Kelvin
#57. Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand.
Steve Maraboli
#58. Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
J.K. Rowling
#59. Thor." The goddess scoffed. "If you want someone who can navigate one hundred and seventy channels of HD content, go to Thor. If you want someone who can accurately send people through the Nine Worlds, he's not your guy.
Rick Riordan
#60. When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
Anthony De Mello
#62. Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: 'Fathers, provoke not your children!' Let us first fulfill Christ's commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same of our children.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#63. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.
Osho
#65. Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
Jack Vance
#66. It's not your fault," Carlisle comforted me with a chuckle. "It could happen to anyone."
"Could," I repeated. "But it usually just happens to me.
Stephenie Meyer
#67. You are not your body, not your appearance. Those are only your packaging. When the physical parts of you wear out, you live on, unencumbered by the weight of flesh and beauty. You are free to soar because you were never those things. You are something more, something eternal.
Toni Sorenson
#68. It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.
Doug Larson
#69. Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
Stephen Covey
#70. Would you like an orange, I have an extra"
"I'd like to give you the orange actually"
"We'll, yes, that's fine and good, but it's not your bloody orange to give. This is my orange
Jandy Nelson
#71. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#72. You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.
Brian Weiss
#73. The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
Victoria Pratt
#74. Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.
Chris Hodges
#75. I am not your average girl. That isn't me. I want you to notice when I'm not around. I want you to remember the little things. I want you to see me for who I am. I don't want to be like everybody else. I follow my heart and never look back. I'll go on shining no matter what ... Always shine.
Anonymous
#76. keeps his tone soothingly soft, the mellow tones of a psychiatric nurse, as he informs me that I will have to give a speech. Then he waits for me to freak out. This speech is not your
Shonda Rhimes
#77. Your house is not your home.
My world is not your world.
Your thoughts are your home
where you're dwelling all along.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!
Donald Trump
#79. The success of your personal brand is hooked to your character, not your brand tangibles
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#80. So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead.
Eric Greitens
#81. Same-sex couples should have equal rights to full benefits both state and federal level. I support repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell because it hasn't worked and military should based on conduct not your sexual orientation
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#82. It's not your fault if you're considered holy in a corrupt world.
Toba Beta
#84. My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
Michael Michele
#85. It's not your job to judge or to decide if someone deserves something. It's your job to lift the fallen and comfort the broken.
Karen Gibbs
#86. I know you're not a man of faith, Edmond, but faith is found when one isn't looking for it and the day will come when your heart, and not your mind, will long for the purification of the soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#87. The Heart of what you are is not your body or your thoughts but pure Consciousness itself.
J.M. Harrison
#88. accepting "They are just not your tribe." Your tribe will love and support you, and be there when you need them. So many things were starting to
June Matthews
#89. You're not a virgin and you didn't get divorced, but suddenly there's this thing you can start doing again with someone who is not your husband.
Ann Benjamin
#90. Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens ... How do you differentiate a Maoist? ... It will create a civil war-like situation.
Kishore Chandra Deo
#91. Your clothes are not your true self; your outer appearance is not your true self; your heart inside your body is not your true self and your words are not your true self. Your true self is your hidden thoughts that no one knows about them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. Things you don't understand are not your world. Is it because of that you name them Religion and worship them?
Fereidoon Yazdi
#94. When your lover begins to talk about "offending" you, he's not your lover anymore.
Stephen King
#95. The Russians have a saying. Offer a man a finger, and he will take your hand - if not your arm.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#96. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.
Connor Franta
#97. Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
[Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]
Ovid
#100. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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