It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I don’t recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories

Always keep in your mind that ambition is something that always puts you in or makes you end up in the meanest offices no matter whether you wish to go there by yourself or not.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Only through sufering can we find ourselves.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an ‘I’ without shame.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I’d have killed myself right away.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disinfecease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

There’s a pain in my chest I cannot explain I told myself I wasn’t gon’ cry Then somebody’s gotta come dry these eyes

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret.

I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

The highest, most decisive experience, is to be alone with one’s own self.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation.

Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

To me, respect comes first

How absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship…I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.

The self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sigh

I don’t want to be defined as someone’s girlfriend.

You don’t have to lie, just tell her to ignore when I’m lying

Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.

I don’t need to be on top to know I’m worth it.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Whatever you are, be a good one

You can wear whatever you want as long as you believe in it.

Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance

You’re love is nothing I can’t fight. Can’t sleep with a man who dims my shine.

‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!

You laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at you because you’re the same.

You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Choose people who lift you up.

One of the things I realized is that if you don’t take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.

You clapped for them and they were quiet for you. Make sure you pay attention.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

The stars above us are our destiny.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.