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Your Quotes

On staying in control of what's truly your own.

These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

With ballet, you're really focused on the inner thigh and butt and just lifting and lengthening everything, including your arms. You're not using weights, but holding up the weight of your own arms is a challenge.

Quotes by Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.

Quotes by Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back of your leg.

Quotes by Mary Helen Bowers

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Ellis

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Until Amazon creates a drone that can cut your hair, there's a physical and real reason to come to the store.

Quotes by Mary Dillon

Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.

Quotes by Mary Berry

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.

Quotes by Mary Berry

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Quotes by Mary Browne

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Quotes by Mary Browne

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Quotes by Marvin Gaye

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Quotes by Marvin Gaye

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Quotes by Marvin Hamlisch

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Quotes by Martti Ahtisaari

Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.

Quotes by Marv Levy

Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.

Quotes by Martin Starr

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

Quotes by Martin Villeneuve

The trend is your friend.

Quotes by Martin Zweig

Frequently Asked Questions

What themes come up across these "Your" quotes?
The quotes touch on trusting others with your personal information, translating your own plans into words, feelings tied to a specific record, and a sharp, personal comparison involving self-esteem.
Is there a quote about privacy or trust?
Yes, one reflects on cryptography and not needing to trust others because encrypting your files gives you control over "whether you would surrender" that trust.
Is there a quote here referencing a real public figure?
Yes: "Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem" makes a pointed comparison using Milosevic's name.
Does this page talk about turning plans into action?
Yes, one quote explains a dislike of outlines and treatments, noting that writing your plan down on paper can make it "very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better" with them. For more on persistence and ambition, see Know or Always.
Is there anything here about music or personal records?
Yes, one quote describes a record as feeling "innocent," tied to being young enough not to fully grasp the weight of your own decisions. For more reflective, first-person lines, see Life or Like.

Related themes continue in our Always quotes and Life quotes, both about staying grounded in your own choices.