Start Your Own Quotes

#1. A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Kathy McClary

#2. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Martha Stewart

#3. Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

Billy Bragg

#4. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.

Mary Kay Ash

#5. If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

Drew Houston

#6. Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

Phil Vischer

#7. Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you'd like, I can help you start your own 'dysmorphia is all in your head' support group.

Howard Tayler

#8. Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.

Peter Sunde

#9. There are too many brands. You can start your own brand from your bedroom. It's a good thing and a bad thing.

Mark McNairy

#10. Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

Terrence McNally

#11. There's no such thing as "Perfect' time to start your own startup business. You will be waiting for the rest of your life.

Timi Nadela

#12. See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing.

Kathleen Hanna

#13. There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

Debby Boone

#14. Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Kevin O'Leary

#15. Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

Peter Diamandis

#16. Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy.

Porter Stansberry

#17. If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

#18. One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.

Bre Pettis

#19. It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

Georgette Mosbacher

#20. If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

Billy Bragg

#21. Waiting to live life is not worth it. Waiting for someone to figure out how to live with you is not worth waiting for. When you start living your own life, life brings you someone worth being with ...

Sadiqua Hamdan

#22. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John Cage

#23. Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

#24. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

Suzanne Selfors

#25. What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

Tom Hodgkinson

#26. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

Bruce Campbell

#27. I don't really have a style
I'm just me. My style is kinda whatever I feel like wearing. A lot of girls feel like they need to wear what everyone else is wearing. But it's good to have your own trend. People will start following it!

Miley Cyrus

#28. Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#29. When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

Luis Valdez

#30. When you choose to live a generous life, you start to change and so does the world around you. Something incredible happens when giving becomes your own idea, not something you do out of duty or obligation.

Brad Formsma

#31. Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?

Dave DeBronkart

#32. The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

James McAvoy

#33. The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you are the Spirit, then what happens that you start feeling on your central nervous the centers of all the people who are around you and your own centers.

Nirmala Srivastava

#34. Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Eric Ries

#35. You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

Mirah

#36. When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose ... Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult ... is only a slow sewing it shut.

Jodi Picoult

#37. All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

Veronica Roth

#38. Do you wander and wonder? Do you start at your own shadow, or awaken to rattling disbelief that this is all you are, prospects bleak, bereft of the proof of your ambition?

Steven Erikson

#39. Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

Rama Swami

#40. This is the first principle of dialogue - Start with Heart. That is, your own heart. If you can't get yourself right, you'll have a hard time getting dialogue right.

Kerry Patterson

#41. You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

Tom Tancredo

#42. I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published ... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

Markus Zusak

#43. 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

#44. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

J.D. Roth

#45. The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Tia Mowry

#46. Dig deep to finish what you start. Because no matter how hard it feels to push through adversity at the time, once your done, you'll own the experience for the rest of your life.

Aaron Lauritsen

#47. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#48. You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

Haruki Murakami

#49. If you want to see changes in the spiritual tone of your home and marriage, start with your own life.

Jim George

#50. You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

Deborah Day

#51. It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.

Arnold Arre

#52. No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart

Adam Lambert

#53. When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

Fefe Dobson

#54. You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. If you start to see God's blessing as your own achievement, then you should know that you
are placing on yourself a burden that is beyond your power to carry.

Sunday Adelaja

#56. Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

Jane Powell

#57. To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

Ian McDiarmid

#58. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Mother Teresa

#59. I live in my own way, I don't consider you. I don't consider anybody at all - because if you start considering others you can't live your life authentically. Consider and you will become phony.

Osho

#60. When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Salman Rushdie

#61. Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Sammy Hagar

#62. Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life ... they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing ... and nobody can tell you different.

Ben Bova

#63. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes, you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others' - end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions, you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.

Ayn Rand

#64. You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

Sylvester Stallone

#65. From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

Robin S. Sharma

#66. Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

Joshua E. Leyenhorst

#67. When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be.

Ralph Marston

#68. When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Matthew Williamson

#69. If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.

John C. Maxwell

#70. You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#71. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

#72. You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Stephanie Perkins

#73. As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

Sienna Miller

#74. Read and listen to one thinker and you become a clone; Read two and you become confused; Read ten and you get your own voice; Read a hundred and you start to become wise.

Timothy Keller

#75. 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

#76. Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.

Steve Maraboli

#77. To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#78. You cannot water your own plant if you are waiting on other people's approval to do so. Stop living your one and only life waiting for validation, start seeking your own inner voice to guide you.

Keysha Jade

#79. You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go ... well, anywhere at all.

Stephen King

#80. Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

Felix Dennis

#81. When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

Eileen Caddy

#82. Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.

Robert Kiyosaki

#83. Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#84. 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

#85. Everybody has his/her own downfalls but the key is to get up and start again and again until you see progress in your life.

Euginia Herlihy

#86. My dashing Lieutenant Douglas, I will never be ruled by that which I do not do of my own free will, and if we are to build a family, I had better start out as I mean to go on. Anything less would be dishonest, and if you do not appreciate it, you may feel free to plant your affections elsewhere."

Barbara Devlin

#87. When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.

Balroop Singh

#88. Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Leif Garrett

#89. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#90. When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.

Jean Chatzky

#91. Father, so often I feel like the boy's father who first exclaimed, "I do believe!" then in a flood of sincerity cried out, "Help me overcome my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24) Please help me to overcome my own unbelief, Lord, so I can start taking You at Your Word.

Beth Moore

#92. When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.

Tecumseh

#93. You don't need Mom and Dad's permission to take charge of your own life. Find something you want to do, and don't give up on it. You can start tomorrow.

Lisa Kleypas

#94. A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story.

Suzanne Selfors

#95. The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

Richard Gere

#96. Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth's soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.

Bob Seger

#97. Or you can start by declaring that novels can no longer be written, and then, behind your own back as it were, produce a mighty blockbuster that establishes you as the last of the great novelists.

Gunter Grass

#98. Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

Chris Hegedus

#99. You're afraid the other tabbies will start thinking like me. You're afraid they'll start thinking, period! You wouldn't know what to do with a woman who has ideas of her own, and your vacant, slack-jawed stare right now proves it.

Rachel Vincent

#100. Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

Lesley Ann Warren