Top 520 Myself Quotes

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being – my wife, Sheryl – which I was never able to do before.

I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

You can’t be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it’s my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

I think of myself as a living cartoon.

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

It’s good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

I’m happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it’s a weird, like, ‘Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don’t care about other stuff.

I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

I don’t ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

I’m just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, ‘It is what it is.’ I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they’re not, and that’s OK. I’m just going to be me. You can’t be everything to everyone.

I am a fairly mongrelized person – you know I’ve been a migrant my whole life, and it’s hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally – this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen – not as a ruler but as a servant.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I’m surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.

I don’t put myself on Jeff Beck’s level, but I can relate to him when he says he’d rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.

I do an hour’s yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot – and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.

I’ve never considered myself as a legend – just a simple man with heart.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I’m not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn – so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

I pride myself on respecting my colleagues.

I don’t like to filter myself, but I do it for PR’s sake.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I don’t see myself in an ivory tower.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

I am not supernatural. I’m just myself.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It’s like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you’re in the street, listening to people, you’re forced to be in the service of your subject.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.

I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else’s shoes.

‘The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’

I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It’s important if you want to create a successful brand.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.

Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people… that’s why I don’t like any of them.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Organic food is the best for you, and I’m eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It’s all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.