Myself Quotes

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.