#myself

My running was very simple; it was out of myself. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#out #running #simple #very

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#good #honest #i #myself #others

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#because #believe #brazil #brazilian #come

But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#as far as #because #crazy #everybody #far

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to. ↗

— Gena Rowlands

#back #how #i #i always #just

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#every #i #into #me #myself

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#i #love #myself