A collection of famous quotes on the topic of 'I' that will changes the way you think about yourself.

I Quotes That’ll Change The Way You Think About Yourself

A journey of discovery can only begin with yourself. Here are some of the most famous quotes and sayings on the topic of ‘I’.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
C. S. Lewis

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend
Albert Camus

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
J. K. Rowling

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf

Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
Bob Marley

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
Charles M. Schulz

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields

I must be cruel, only to be kind.
William Shakespeare

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
John Lennon

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.
Nicholas Sparks

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.
Bil Keane

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Nicholas Sparks

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
Bil Keane

O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William Shakespeare

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
Suzanne Collins

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
Suzanne Collins

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
Bil Keane

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
Nicholas Sparks

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
Marilyn Monroe

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
Bil Keane

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!

You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
J. K. Rowling

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. Milne

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
Bil Keane

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Neil Gaiman

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Jane Austen

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Pat Conroy

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Stephen King

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

I am not young enough to know everything.

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
J. K. Rowling

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.
Bil Keane

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C. S. Lewis

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
Woody Allen

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real,

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.
Suzanne Collins