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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.

Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

Quotes by Richard Savage

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Quotes by Richard Serra

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

Quotes by Richard Shelby

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

Quotes by Richard Simmons

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

Quotes by Richard Roeper

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Quotes by Richard Pryor

Davos is probably the world's most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don't be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.

Quotes by Richard Quest

Everything I do in business moves toward eliminating brick and mortar. Call us up and anywhere in the contiguous United States, we’ll get your vehicle and take care of it.

Quotes by Richard Rawlings

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

Quotes by Richard Ojeda

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Well, the problem is that when you mix discussion of official United States government business with discussion of your personal business, you can tread dangerously close to the bribery statutes.

Quotes by Richard Painter

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

Quotes by Richard Parks Bland

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

Quotes by Richard Petty

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Quotes by Richard Morris Hunt

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it...

Quotes by Richard Mourdock

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a...

Quotes by Richard Madden

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a...

Quotes by Richard Madden

Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I...

Quotes by Richard Lamm

With a game, you're only one part of a team, and what emerges at launch is very much the culmination of the whole team's efforts. You can be proud of playing your part, but it doesn't ever belong to you.

Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

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.