Quotes About Not Yours

#1. Always take a compliment, even if it's not yours

Benny Bellamacina

#2. If others try to blame you for their own negative energy, let it go and forget about it! It's their problem ... not yours!

Timothy Pina

#3. He rallied a little. "Who are you? What do you know about this? Disease control is our job, not yours. Who are you?"
"My name," I said, mostly uner my breath, "is Siobhan Grainne MacNamarra Walkingstick, and I'm the answer to all your prayers.

C.E. Murphy

#4. I am not mine.
You are not yours.
No one can be his own.
I am not yours.
You are not mine.
No one can belong to another.

Werner Bergengruen

#5. If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Warren Buffett

#6. You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is ... This is our destiny. Not yours.

Alyson Noel

#7. Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Dorianne Laux

#8. Take control of the time you have with your kids as one day they will be all grown up and have their own friends and things to do. Cherish every moment you have with them now as you might not see them as they get older. It becomes their schedule not yours!

Kevin McCarty

#9. Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#10. Don't expect too much from others because people behave according to their perspective, not yours. Accept people as they are and avoid controlling them, only then they will give you their best.

Hina Hashmi

#11. "More."
"You'll get more ... but it'll be my way, not yours.

Cherise Sinclair

#12. You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

Cassandra Clare

#13. You are a hookimaw. Happiness is not yours to have.

Joseph Boyden

#14. He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours.

Jim Butcher

#15. He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chris Bohjalian

#16. Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#17. Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.

Leon Brown

#18. Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Ville Valo

#19. Tomorrow is not yours until it becomes today.

Beem Weeks

#20. Never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Gail Godwin

#22. My pace, Saylor. Not yours. I'm in control now. You may own pieces of me you never even knew, but right now, I'm going to own you. Every single part of you." My

K. Bromberg

#23. If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.

A.W. Tozer

#24. People buy for their reasons, not yours.

Abby Donnelly

#25. Everything that happens here, every choice involving you is mine to make, not yours. So from this moment on, you're to stop making decisions, and enjoy the freedom that comes with that."

Sara Fawkes

#26. You can't lose what you never had, you cant keep what's not yours, and you can't hold on to something that doesn't want to stay.

Damon Suede

#27. If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

Jefferson Davis

#28. History comforts the dull-witted,"" the young Malazan said.
Beneth barked a laugh as he reached the gate. "And whose words are those, Pella? Not yours."
The guard's brows rose, then shrugged. "I forget you're Korelri sometimes, Beneth. Those words? Emperor Kellanved.

Steven Erikson

#29. Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#30. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

Gavriel Savit

#31. Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.

Elizabeth McCracken

#32. No one can take what is rightfully due to you. You can never possess anything which is rightfully not yours

Guru Dev

#33. If you let loose a law, it will
do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such
sense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.
But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you have
forgotten to put into it.

G.K. Chesterton

#34. World, O world, I follow my fancy, not yours!

Marty Rubin

#35. Her voice was a thread, but still she managed to sound acerbic. "I believe it's the devil's job to tempt me. Not yours."
"And the difference between the devil and I would be . . . ?"
"None that I can detect.

Julie Anne Long

#36. Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?

Slick Rick

#37. If he couldn't appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that's his shame, not yours."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

Naima Simone

#38. Never claim credit for work that is not yours, and always give full credit

Randy L. Joyner

#39. You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

Eckhart Tolle

#40. The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone's. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays a hand on her answer to me.

Juliet Marillier

#41. Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#42. Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

Lysa TerKeurst

#43. What I've got to offer you is your life.'
'It's not yours to offer ...

Ayn Rand

#44. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's" (v. 15). This verse is the middle verse of the Old Testament and rightly so, for it gives the assurance that when we trust in God He will fight for us. The battle is not ours; it is His.

Ravi Zacharias

#45. I wanted him to know that you are mine." Violet's voice is soft. "But I'm not yours." I take a few long, deep, ragged breaths. "But that doesn't mean I don't want you to be.

M. Leighton

#46. Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you ... they care about their own well-being, not yours

Wayne Dyer

#47. If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

Bridget Asher

#48. Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#49. To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.

Marcus Buckingham

#50. The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.

Tom Hiddleston

#51. This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.

Anonymous

#52. The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours.

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. That's not a goal," Kit said.
"Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

Kij Johnson

#54. When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours.

Debasish Mridha

#55. Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Martin Luther

#56. Whether or not someone sexualizes you for wearing an outfit, that's their problem and not yours.

Camila Cabello

#57. My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own ... I am never broken.

Jewel

#58. Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.

Ricky Gervais

#59. When there's blood involved, you always use every advantage you have to make sure it's theirs that spills and not yours. If you want to feel guilty about taking unfair advantage afterward, you go ahead and feel that shit. But live to feel it.

Kevin Hearne

#60. You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

Wendell Berry

#61. I'm sorry about what I said about the police," she said. "I know your friend works for them."

"You have reason," he said. "You don't know what they'll do, and when they become known for doing crazy things, you have no reason to trust them. That's their fault, not yours.

Zoe Ferraris

#62. This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

J.D. Salinger

#63. Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

Robert A. Heinlein

#64. I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.

Lindy West

#65. Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.

Mohammed Dahlan

#66. Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning
it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.

Barry Lyga

#67. Why do you watch TV shows - and keep watching them - if you don't like them? Terence asked.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.

Colson Whitehead

#68. If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Jude Morgan

#69. If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.

Bobbie Kinkead

#70. What is not yours will never last forever but what comes from the inside will flow like a river and it will bear fruits.

Euginia Herlihy

#71. Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.

Kimberley Nixon

#72. In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine.

R.K. Narayan

#73. I don't want to lose you," he says.
I stop because I finally know what I need to say.
"Gray, I'm not yours to lose.

Katie Kacvinsky

#74. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

Cynthia Ozick

#75. When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.

Elizabeth Haydon

#76. I'll take care of her."
"She's not yours to take care of.

Kiersten White

#77. I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali

#78. If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, Mecca, Buddha, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours
well, maybe the problem is you.

Mitch Albom

#79. Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Ichiro Suzuki

#80. I don't like to share," he murmured.
"Braden, I'm not yours."
"For the next three months you are. I mean it, Jocelyn. No one else touches you.

Samantha Young

#81. You are in love and you think that is all there is in the world. But the world is bigger than you, Will, and may have need of you. You are a Shadowhunter. You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away.

Cassandra Clare

#82. Mira admitted. "This is my risk to take. Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed." "Technically, you can't live if you get killed," Jace pointed out.

Brandon Mull

#83. The worldly life is not the trouble, the 'wrong belief' is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.

Dada Bhagwan

#84. Life is not yours to take.

Richard Paul Evans

#85. Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Marcus Aurelius

#86. It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

Ben Marcus

#87. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Eckhart Tolle

#88. You may be afraid. But the choice to love you is mine. Not yours. You don't get to make that choice for me. You can choose to not let me love you, but you can't tell me what's too much for me to handle. That's for me to decide.

Jasinda Wilder

#89. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.

C. JoyBell C.

#90. I am no prince if not yours. -Brandon Maxfield

Ninya Tippett

#91. If I lose my honor,
I lose myself: better I were not yours
Than yours so branchless.

William Shakespeare

#92. In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Johannes Tauler

#93. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Leo Buscaglia

#94. You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Diana Krall

#95. I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.

Sara Teasdale

#96. You've bitten her, but she's not yours." "Yet." "Looking for a challenge?" Baojia shrugged. "I hate being bored." The earth vampire just laughed. When

Elizabeth Hunter

#97. When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

Paul Enenche

#98. One man told me, 'My tooth is hurting'. Why would 'your' tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!

Dada Bhagwan

#99. There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

Michka Assayas

#100. If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.

Seth Godin