I Care Quotes - Page 25

• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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• Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humor, Fabric, Goes On

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• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

  Marquis de Sade

  Thinking, Kinky, Care

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Motivational, Care, Credibility

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• As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Marijuana, Smoking

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Care, Crowds

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

  John Muir

  People, Looks, Care

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.207, The Mountaineers Books

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• Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

  David Levithan

  Moving, Bed, Body

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] "You can die too for all I care," she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. "As...you...wish..."

  William Goldman

  Men, Black, Wish

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, 1973.

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• The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Trust, Leadership

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• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Care, Fame

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Years, Nfl

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• You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Thinking, Feminism

  "Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too". Speech at a special event for the HeForShe campaign, United Nations Headquarters, New York, www.unwomen.org. September 20, 2014.

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• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Envy, Care

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.296

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• I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

  Regina Spektor

  People, Care, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth!  I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him.  Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning.  But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

  Jim Elliot

  Stars, Children, Eye

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• When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.

  Simon Sinek

  Care, Cheat

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

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist - so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

  Kiana Tom

  Successful, Careers, Keys

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• There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

  Steve Albini

  Class, People, Musician

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• I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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• To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

  Criss Angel

  Emotional, People, Magic

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Care, Problem

  "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.

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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  Tamara Mellon

  Gossip, Care, Great Business

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• I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Mean, Men

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