Top 100 Quotes About For Myself
#1. I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.
Mathieu Kassovitz
#2. Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. I haven't believed in magic because I don't believe in anything that I haven't seen with my own eyes. Therefore, I must go to Paelsia as soon as I can and learn the truth for myself
Morgan Rhodes
#4. Up until then I had lived for myself or at least inside of myself. I had gotten married without imagining that my wife was anything more than a comrade, without realizing precisely that because of our union my life could be changed.
Andre Gide
#5. I'm not ogling him for myself. I'm ogling him for you. It was, after all, your sex life we were discussing. (Selena)
Well, my sex life is just hunky-dory, and not the business of the people in this restaurant. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#7. The thing I see for myself is to be the best ever.
Simeon Rice
#8. I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade ... not for the good of the world ... but for myself.
Kaori Yuki
#9. I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.
Pink
#10. I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
John Sexton
#11. As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.
Sean Penn
#12. There is no young creature, my Lord, who so greatly wants, or so earnestly wishes for, the advice and assistance of her friends, as I do: I am new to the world, and unused to acting for myself;-my intentions are never willfully blameable, yet I err perpetually!
Fanny Burney
#13. It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.
Bonnie McKee
#14. Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.
Nicole Richie
#15. I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
Alan Menken
#16. I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.
Louise Hay
#17. For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
Patrick Kane
#19. I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
Robin Hobb
#20. I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.
Eminem
#22. For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.
Robert Robinson
#23. My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#24. I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
Josh Henderson
#25. I had to see for myself what was going on,
Denis Avey
#26. It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
Beck
#27. I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
Om Puri
#28. I love to write and I assure you I write regularly ... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J.D. Salinger
#29. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
Jennifer Aniston
#30. O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
Louis Aragon
#31. My words, my writing, my actions - these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#32. I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've wanted it so long, said Jo, who was a bookworm.
Louisa May Alcott
#33. The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
Catherine Fisher
#34. I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach.
Kenna
#35. The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!
Mitch Hewer
#36. I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so - I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
Ben Webster
#37. My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.
Josh Duhamel
#38. When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
Richard House
#39. For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
Katherine Boo
#40. I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.
Maurice Sendak
#41. One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
Aasif Mandvi
#42. When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?
Santideva
#43. But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#44. What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.
Marc Trestman
#45. My desire to work - my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible - is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But
Elizabeth Gilbert
#46. I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
Townes Van Zandt
#47. I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I've set for myself. And that's hard to feel - like you're giving your life to something and you can't really do it as well as you want to do it.
Joan Osborne
#48. My belly does a flip and I get goosebumps on my arms. I'm so used to people translating every nice thing I ever do as me trying to get something for myself that I just presume people think the worst of me the whole time.
Dawn O'Porter
#49. I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
Adele
#50. The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.
Lewis Black
#51. I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#52. When I read about women living under the Taliban, I really wanted to travel there and see for myself: Is it that bad? What is the situation? I remember the night before I left for my trip, I called my mom and said, "I'm going to Afghanistan tomorrow."
Lynsey Addario
#53. Let the only things higher than the airplanes in the sky, be the stories that I tell to others and the castles that i build for myself.
Rishi Piparaiya
#54. I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude that a woman could not take it. I was not going to give any bastard the satisfaction. I was going to be resilient one more time.
Julia Gillard
#55. I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
Nicolas Cage
#56. Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.
Roger Federer
#57. I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
Sam Kinison
#58. I feel my writing comes from a desire to ... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#59. I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
Shane Koyczan
#60. As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
Claude Monet
#61. I know that I am going away on my own account. I must make the usual effort. I must have something to show for myself. To take what you would give me, I should have to be either a very large man or a very small one, and I am only in the middle class.
Willa Cather
#62. My demon is you. My best and worst is about you: how I need you and fear for you, how I fear for myself if I lose you, how I have let myself be defined by you.
Danielle Younge-Ullman
#63. When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
Utah Phillips
#64. I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven't had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public's. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
Maria Callas
#65. I feel for myself, that I'm able to relate to people regarding many different things in context to human spirituality.
Jai Uttal
#66. My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.
Todd Rundgren
#67. I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.
Jayne Mansfield
#68. In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.
Marc Maron
#69. As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
Joshua Slocum
#70. I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.
Robert Rodriguez
#71. I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.
Mark Evelyn Heath
#72. When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself ... What's the highest and best use for myself.
Lance Armstrong
#73. What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.
Colin Farrell
#74. I'd like to turn on the whole world for just a moment... just for a moment. I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends... to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day... so that I'd radiate sunshine.
Jean Stein
#75. Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.
Al Madrigal
#76. Living a meaningful life is important to me. It's not about money or prestige. It's about helping as many people as I can through my experience and education. I'm not just doing it for myself
Lisa De Jong
#77. The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent.
Martin Amis
#78. When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.
Lori Hatcher
#79. I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.
John Marin
#80. The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
#81. If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.
Amy Sedaris
#82. I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.
Louise Hay
#83. For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
#84. I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achieved the thing we all came to New York wanting.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
#85. I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.
Anthony Evans
#86. I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Nigel Kneale
#87. I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.
Zooey Deschanel
#88. I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?
Geronimo
#89. All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
Gaston Leroux
#90. I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.
Joanna Garcia
#91. I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.
Dries Van Noten
#92. In the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.
J.M. Coetzee
#93. As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.
Molly Elliot Seawell
#94. I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
Hunter Hayes
#95. I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.
Jennifer Holliday
#96. I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
Ranbir Kapoor
#98. 'Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view.
Ving Rhames
#99. I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
Hugh Jackman
#100. You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
George Armstrong Custer
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