Myself Quotes

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

~ Maya Angelou

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

~ Lil' Kim

I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

~ Kevin Hart

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

~ Tom Cruise

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

~ Hugh Jackman

It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect.

~ Kurt Elling

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

~ Tom Stoppard

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

~ Venus Williams

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

~ Francois Hollande

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

~ Drake

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

~ Alex Guarnaschelli

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

~ Tyson Fury

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

~ Ani Difranco

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

~ Tony Judt

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

~ Dmx

I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads even before they start shooting, which I respect. They finish their work on time. Being a disciplinarian myself, this suits my style.

~ Akshay Kumar

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

~ Ryan Sheckler

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

~ Jen Kirkman

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

~ Ellen Greene

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

~ Joseph Priestley

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

~ Max Nordau

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

~ Octavia E. Butler

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

~ Walt Whitman

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

~ Stephen Colbert

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

~ Ferdinand Porsche

When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?'

~ Donald Trump

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

~ J.k. Rowling

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

~ Drew Barrymore

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

~ Louis Aragon

I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.

~ Jennifer Holliday

I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

~ Emeraude Toubia

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

~ Alanis Morissette

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

~ Ashton Eaton

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.

~ Amy Purdy

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

~ Richard Simmons

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

~ Lenny Kravitz

I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I'm going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.

~ Michael Oher

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.

~ Amandla Stenberg