Immanuel Kant Quotes

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

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.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self... Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.

You always knows what's best for you.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.