Emmanuel Macron Quotes

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

Of course it's nice to get recognition, but I'm not looking for it. I just do my thing. If it comes, it comes. But it's not what you play for.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.

When I play, I'm playing for myself and I'm playing for my family too.

I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

People always say that I'm just a beautiful face. So immediately, I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be recognized to be more than that.

The things I do, I do for me, not for no publicity stunt or cameras or whatever.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.