Tell Your Story Quotes

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches. — Lynn Coady

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story. — Billy Graham

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary. — Lena Dunham

Your first love is important. It's part of your story. The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life. — Jennifer Weiner

I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story. — Carson Kressley

We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story. — Patrick Rothfuss

Everybody has a story that must be told.
Your life is your story.
Tell your story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister. — Cassandra Clare

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it. — Mariel Hemingway

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story. — Simon Mainwaring

We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words. — C. JoyBell C.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog. — Cesar Millan

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen. — Francesca Lia Block

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else. — Iyanla Vanzant

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. — Andrew Greeley

I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Only you can tell your story. — Victoria A. Hudson

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. — Nate Berkus

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story. — Michelle Yeoh

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. — Majid Kazmi

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey

Green pine trees, cranes and
turtles ...
You must tell a story of your
hard times
And laugh twice. — John Hersey

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story. — Spalding Gray

Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can. — William Zinsser

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story. — Kevin Conroy

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

... what your life means depends on how you tell the story. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database. — Seth Godin

The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero. — Chris Brogan

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell. — Adam Braun

I know it feels like it, but you're not alone in your pain. Shed it. Write a story. And we'll tell you that our pain is the same. — Ksenia Anske

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. — Richie Norton

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth. — Frank Delaney

You can tell your story any way you damn well please — Jandy Nelson

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

Who knows if [maybe] destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life? — Jandy Nelson

Make this part of your brand DNA ... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care. — Ted Rubin

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. — Louise Bourgeois

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

If It's Not Your Story To Tell,Don't Tell It ... — Iyanla Vanzant

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story. — Gary Vaynerchuk

No one gets to tell you what your life means! — Jess Walter

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. — Mason Cooley

If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to. — Thea Harrison

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. — Sarah Kay

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. — Rumi

I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger. — Roksanda Ilincic

Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people. — Brit Morin

Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever. — Brad Meltzer

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. — William Kittredge

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it. — Iyanla Vanzant

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every time you tell your old story, you reactivate the negative emotions/vibes as a whole new experience in your body. — Catherine Garrett

Tell your story with your whole heart. — Brene Brown

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. — Aleksandar Hemon

When I told you I was the last man you'd ever tell your story to, I meant it. I'm not going anywhere. — Christy Pastore

Write about us," Robinson urged. "Tell our story." And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. — James Patterson

Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts. — Tony Curl

She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'. — Lindsay McKenna

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. — Arthur Helps

They will never stop talking about you! No one can tell your story like you can! — Latasha Wakefield

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. — Donald Miller

Don't sell your story, just tell your story. — J.J. Abrams

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story. — Danielle LaPorte

Don't waste your daydreams on your mind. Tell the world a story. — Giuseppe Bianco

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story. — Derek Webb

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family. — Lauren Machta

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can. — Toni Sorenson

You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you. — Seanan McGuire

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into. — Susan Wiggs

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. — R. Kelly

Wrinkles? They just tell the story of your life — Linda Boyden

Watch your thoughts-listen to them because they shape your life and evolve into words. They tell a story about you and how you perceive your life. — Barbara Miller

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement. — Karlie Kloss

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be. — Lt General Brian Horrocks

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell. — Mitch Harper

Just tell your story. Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. So just keep going. — Iain Reid

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story. — Natalie Babbitt

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle. — Julian Seifter

Go to sleep and dream, dreams. Let your dreams fly. let them come to life, and tell a story. — Matt Trevitz

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner. — Zack Love

Every story you tell is your own story. — Joseph Campbell

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. — Isabel Allende

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something. — Mary Carter

This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth. — Barbara Kingsolver

I think being a singer-songwriter ... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. — Gabrielle Aplin

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story. — Mary J. Blige

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea? — Trevor Hall

Be open to suggestions, but don't let anyone dictate how you should tell your story. Who can possibly tell your story better than you? — Giuseppe Bianco