Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

I just live my life.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

I've always wanted to be successful, but I wanted to make sure I found my own way.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

I like having the space of my own project.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.