Hugh Prather Quotes

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

No one manipulates me.

Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!'

I'm not here to be a puppet, if you will.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand.

As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Don't live your life to please other people.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.