Top 100 To Myself Quotes
#1. Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.
Misty Copeland
#2. It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.
Janelle Monae
#3. When I look into your eyes I still get weak
And when Im this close to you I just cant speak
And its hard to keep my hands to myself
When I know I could never love anybody else
Gary Allan
#4. I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!
Helene Cixous
#5. I never get mad when people hear my name wrong because I think to myself, Maybe they have hearing issues, excess earwax or something.
Kasie West
#6. When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way ...
Ayumi Hamasaki
#7. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why.
John Green
#8. TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#9. So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#10. I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Anne Stevenson
#11. I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
Tamar Braxton
#12. I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real ... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.
Angie Everhart
#13. Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.
Benazir Bhutto
#14. I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.
Ingvar Kamprad
#15. I answer number one to myself, because I know myself. I answer to my fans, because they know me. My mother knows me and God knows me, and that's where it's at.
Dick Dale
#16. I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way.
David Foster Wallace
#17. No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do
Jerome K. Jerome
#18. But I say to myself, we are all sorry when we found out. Then we are very sorry. The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is, what are we going to do now that we are sorry?
J.M. Coetzee
#19. It's simple, Grey. I'm a spoiled brat. I've always gotten what I want. Always. And I want you all to myself. I don't want you working there anymore, and I knew you'd fight me on it, so I took the fight away from you. I don't care how much it costs, I have to have you all to myself.
Jasinda Wilder
#20. I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.
Daniel Snyder
#21. I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.
Jonathan Edwards
#22. When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.
Sara Bareilles
#23. When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
Adam Sandler
#24. I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'
Melinda Gates
#25. I never feel like laughing when things are funny," he said. "I just think to myself, 'Now, that's funny.
Rainbow Rowell
#26. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
#27. I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.
Demi Lovato
#28. But we all live there, I thought to myself, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives.
Siri Hustvedt
#29. I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I am lying to myself. I have feared writing. But books have saved me sometimes, that is the truth - my Samaritans.
Sebastian Barry
#30. How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
Olaf Stapledon
#31. I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself.
[ ... ]
I didn't want to share them. Because I didn't want to dilute them
Amor Towles
#32. Yep. Nineteen years of trying to be everything to everyone and ending up as no one to myself.
Leisa Rayven
#33. I would love when that day comes so I can prove everyone wrong, but in the same time prove to myself I can be the best I can be.
Grigor Dimitrov
#34. I'd said to myself once that Gabriel preferred a life where he felt as little responsibility for others as possible. That was true. But even more true is the fact that he preferred a life where others felt no responsibility for him.
Kelley Armstrong
#35. When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.
Milla Jovovich
#36. Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.
Christian Hosoi
#37. I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'
Charlize Theron
#38. The first time I was told that I had a brain injury, I immediately thought to myself, "I'm not crazy.
Amy Rankin
#39. In her face I saw what I'd never fully admitted to myself- the humiliatingly pathetic hopelessness of my love.
Eli Easton
#40. And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see
Why trubles like this have to happen to me!
Dr. Seuss
#41. I just keep my cars to myself.
T-Pain
#42. I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.
Nina Dobrev
#43. I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
Henry Miller
#44. I was only going to stay six months. I stayed three years, and I never stopped thinking about leaving. But when I left, I left my entire life behind. I have to explain to you why I no longer live in New York, but first I have to explain to myself why I stayed so long.
Eula Biss
#45. It's okay to be insufferable as long as you're aware that you're being insufferable. At least that's how I justified it to myself.
Jessica Knoll
#46. I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.
Goran Ivanisevic
#47. Beef stew and biscuits?!" I thought to myself, outraged. He couldn't even say hello? I looked down at my silky black dress and high heeled shoes and suddenly felt very foolish. I had been passed over for beef stew and biscuits.
Amy Harmon
#48. I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different ... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.
Pierre Schaeffer
#49. First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe
#51. I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
Ursula Burns
#52. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
Meister Eckhart
#53. I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.
Busy Philipps
#54. Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.
Sebastian Janikowski
#55. I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
Laura Linney
#56. What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?
Charles Yu
#57. I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.
Winfried Vahland
#58. I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.
Marcia Cross
#59. I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
Gore Vidal
#60. In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.
Like a perfect state of balance.
Tim Relf
#61. I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.
Blake Lewis
#62. As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
Arthur Hugh Clough
#63. We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
James Agee
#64. Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.
Hanif Kureishi
#65. I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#66. I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.
Ken Kesey
#67. I want your womanizing mama's-boy football-player butt all to myself and if I catch you with any Twinkies or beautify queens or anyone else, you'd better run fast because I will hunt you down.
K.A. Tucker
#68. A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."
Dave Grohl
#69. I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.
Rajneesh
#70. I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
Karen Abbott
#71. To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If
Thomas Merton
#72. Everyday I question myself. I look in the mirror, or read one of my scripts, or I reflect on my acting and I say to myself 'that was good ... but was it Zach Braff good?' Lets just say things have been looking pretty Zach Braff so far.
Zach Braff
#73. I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.
Joseph Mitchell
#74. I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders.
Martin Amis
#75. When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.
Carl Barat
#76. I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
Valerie June
#77. I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
Ernest Rutherford
#78. In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.
Edward John Trelawny
#79. Because I have never separated myself from my home neighborhood, I cannot identify myself to myself apart from it. I am fairly literally flesh of its flesh. It is present in me, and to me, wherever I go. This
Wendell Berry
#80. I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.
Lauren Wolk
#81. Her anger was rekindled.
'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything , or I'll explode!'
He said nothing, and she exploded all the same.
Emile Zola
#82. I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself well, that's not going to happen
Rita Rudner
#83. A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
Albert Camus
#84. It is my growing conviction that my life belongs to others just as much as it belongs to myself and that what is experienced as most unique often proves to be most solidly embedded in the common condition of being human.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#85. I find it helps to lie to myself in hopeless situations. It keeps me trying, and it keeps me thinking. And I knew that if I did enough trying and thinking, I tended to still be alive when opportunities arose - so far.
Bobby Adair
#86. You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.
Frank Hague
#87. Prophet of evil I ever am to myself: forced for ever into sorrowful auguries that I have no power to hide from my own heart, no, not through one night's solitary dreams.
Thomas De Quincey
#88. The only way that I will ever be great to myself is not what I do to my body but what I do to my mind.
J.Z. Knight
#89. Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.
I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.
I set off, off to kill the man I loved.
Richelle Mead
#90. I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'
Reid Scott
#91. I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.
George Harrison
#92. I swore to myself that if I ever got to walk around the room as manager, people would laugh when they saw me coming, and would applaud as I walked away.
Michael Scott
#93. Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.
Melody Beattie
#94. I can't admit to myself that the creation of a Palestinian state won't happen. What I know is that with each passing year it gets more and more difficult to happen, not least because there is more and more bloodshed, generation upon generation.
David Miliband
#95. Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.
John Harwood
#96. I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Mason Cooley
#97. But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
Charles Bukowski
#98. I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.
Michael Keaton
#99. Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.
Wildbow
#100. That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me.
Dave Pelzer
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
