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Yours Quotes

On what truly belongs to you.

This page collects yours quotes centered on ownership, both creative and emotional, including how a song or novel can stop feeling like it belongs to its creator once it is shared. For more on care in relationships, see the Because quotes page.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Quotes by Sidney Sheldon

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Quotes by Roy H. Williams

Fear has been good to yours truly.

Quotes by Robert Englund

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Quotes by Richard Bach

After Quotes

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

Quotes by Randy Quaid

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

Quotes by Pat Paulsen

After a song comes out, it doesn't remain yours.

Quotes by Mohit Chauhan

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.

Quotes by Mary Schmich

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Quotes by Lucretius

Awareness Quotes

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Quotes by John Ashbery

I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

Quotes by Janine Shepherd

There are lots of ways to monetize. But if you have millions of fans, and you can convert even five percent of them to pay for something of yours, you are in the seven-figure range.

Quotes by Jake Paul

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Quotes by Ichiro Suzuki

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

Quotes by Hans Bender

Because Quotes

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

Quotes by George A. Moore

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Quotes by Clarence Day

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

I hate graffiti. It's not yours - don't draw on it! Is it that hard to comprehend?

Quotes by Chad Michael Murray

Been Quotes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Quotes by Cary Elwes

Frequently Asked Questions

What theme connects the quotes on this yours page?
These quotes circle around ownership and belonging, particularly how creative work like a song, novel, or poem can stop feeling like it truly belongs to the person who made it.
Why do people search for yours quotes?
Readers often search for yours quotes when thinking about what is genuinely theirs, whether that is a piece of creative work, a relationship, or their own emotional boundaries.
Is there a quote about music and ownership here?
Yes, one quote notes that after a song is released, it no longer really belongs to the artist, reflecting how audiences reshape a work's meaning once it is public.
Do any quotes compare different creative fields?
One quote contrasts writing a movie, which involves many collaborators, with writing a novel, which stays personally yours, highlighting how ownership varies by medium. See After for related reflections.
Is this page only about creative ownership, or does it touch on relationships too?
It covers both. Alongside creative ownership, one quote warns against being reckless with other people's hearts or tolerating carelessness with your own, extending the idea of "yours" into emotional territory.

Other quotes touch on protecting your own heart from people careless with it, adding an emotional layer to the theme of belonging. Related pages include After and Awareness quotes.