#elf

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

#done #exists #faithful #indispensable #make

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#being #britain #coming #different #different parts

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#always #call #i #i always #myself

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#corny #hard #i #i believe #i believe in

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. ↗

— William Godwin

#indignation #itself #pregnant #revolution #tyranny

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗

— William Godwin

#himself #right #tyrant

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#character #deal #even #great #great deal

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there. ↗

— Venus Williams

#believe in yourself #else #i #i do #i think