You Can't Fool Yourself Quotes

#1. You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

Ann Powers

#2. You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

Whitney Houston

#3. If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?

Janet Evanovich

#4. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. ( ... ) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.

John Osborne

#6. Strive from the outset to express yourself with such clarity that a bright twelve-year-old would understand you. Any fool can make it complicated: it takes focus to make it simple.

Keith Evans

#7. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.

Don Maynard

#8. You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

#9. Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer."
"If you don't believe in Easter," Owen Meany said. "Don't kid yourself - Don't call yourself a Christian.

John Irving

#10. No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

James Cook

#11. You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

Mary Oliver

#12. You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them ... but you can not fool yourself

Abraham Lincoln

#13. There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.

Richard Branson

#14. When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.

Joan Rivers

#15. Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?"
"What's that?"
"The world didn't come to an end.

Charles M. Schulz

#16. A fool thinks that he can cheat others, but a prudent man knows that he can only cheat himself.

Debasish Mridha

#17. If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

William Shatner

#18. You can fool a lot of the people some of the time, and a few of the people most of the time, but the only person you can fool all of the time is yourself.

Bruce T. Clark

#19. You can fool people in public, but you will never fool truth even in private. You can fool yourself a thousand times, but you cannot fool God even once.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

Frederick Lenz

#21. You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Jodi Picoult

#22. Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

Harlan Coben

#23. Can you add a quote from yourself? That would be pointless, what sort of fool would do that?

RJ Barker

#24. You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.

Shayla Black

#25. Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

Tom Robbins

#26. And you can fool yourself if you're raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn't true. We're rubes too.

Victor LaValle

#27. Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

Richard Branson

#28. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.

Hilari Bell

#29. When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

Cesar Romero

#30. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

Rebecca Scherm

#31. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

Gelsey Kirkland