With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn MonroeI sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. RowlingThe man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert HubbardMoney does not change people, people change.
Bad BunnyEvery time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Albert CamusI think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice WalkerIt will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
Muhammad AliI don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
Amy WinehouseThe longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert CamusNo one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
Joyce MeyerNever take anything for granted.
Benjamin DisraeliMany people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Jackie RobinsonI don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.
Lady GagaI will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Jackie ChanMy experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor RooseveltDo not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard ShawYou must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltI never do anything that I don’t want to do.
Kevin HartOn the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund HillaryNothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.
EminemA lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Bob DylanThe older you get, the better you get.
Sunil ChhetriThere are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.
David ByrneEvery one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.
Taylor SwiftI know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
Dolly PartonDo not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace ThackerayWhat you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.
Adam SandlerThe best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. ClarkeEnemies are so stimulating.
Katharine HepburnYou bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
Alice WalkerOld friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
Dalai LamaThe more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.
Kevin GatesI believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
Robert KiyosakiAt 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert CamusI’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.
Steve JobsFreedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert CamusMy first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.
Michelle ObamaKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinEducation must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam ChomskyWhat humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya AngelouWhen you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
Brene BrownAt one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
Alice WalkerI have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice WalkerWhen we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusNobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLiving at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray BradburyI’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.
Lando NorrisMilitary school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
Robert KiyosakiPeople change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.
Michelle ObamaI fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘
Russell M. NelsonI am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady GagaThey must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
ConfuciusNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas CarlyleFor a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn MonroeNo untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
Michelle Obama