You Have To Protect Yourself Quotes

#1. You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you. I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her.

Maya Angelou

#2. In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#3. In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#4. De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Christopher Meloni

#5. You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

James Badge Dale

#6. When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

Jess Weixler

#7. As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

Jeffery Deaver

#8. You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#9. You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

Klaus Kinski

#10. I can't!" I yell. "I can't fucking tell you that! And that's the problem. You have to go. You to walk away, because I can't. You have to protect yourself from me, because I can't walk away from you.

Emma Hart

#11. When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes.

Kevin Griffin

#12. It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

Sara Shepard

#13. To move forward in life you have to want to live more than you want to protect yourself.

Paul Greenbaum

#14. When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

Benjamin Clementine

#15. In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.

Hideo Kojima

#16. Does it make sense to lose out on love because you're trying to protect yourself from something that might never happen? It's called risk, and you can't have a full life without it.

Tonya Lampley

#17. You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.

Michael Connelly

#18. I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them ... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

Tara Reid

#19. Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

Chris Evert

#20. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

Brad Pitt

#21. I always think, medically ... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

Lisa Edelstein

#22. The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Deborah Tannen

#23. To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

Debasish Mridha

#24. You have a longing to be understood, but still feel the need to protect yourself.

Emily P. Freeman

#25. You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat.

Scott Hall

#26. You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

Julia Hill

#27. Steph, you are my sister and I love you. I have always tried to protect you, even when it meant leaving you to fend for yourself so that you'd become strong on your own.

Thaddeus Nowak

#28. And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.

Ian Fleming

#29. You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

Dave Holland

#30. You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian."
"I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.

Neil Gaiman