Joan Rivers Quotes

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

I don't like being over-friendly, as people could take me for granted.

I do not let anyone use me and throw me.

When someone shows confidence in you, you want to reward it back.

I don't need to be liked.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

I'm the opposite of jealous.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

I know how to look after myself.

You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.