Words matter. These are the best Own Quotes from famous people such as Ansel Adams, Brigham Young, Elon Musk, Vladimir Lenin, James M. Barrie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you’re in.
What I think we need to do is pass a bill that says number one, you own your data. Number two, you can license it to Facebook but the licensing has to be knowing, it has to be willful.
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.
One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
Black man, you are on your own.
The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Don’t use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don’t worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody’s individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
Those who own the country ought to govern it.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own – we will defend it or perish.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.
It’s really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won’t. But I’m strong enough to deal with that. I own that I’m freakish in my way.
Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Don’t believe your own publicity. You can’t; you’ll start thinking that you’re better than you are.
You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
I’m a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I’m not that eccentric in real life – and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people’s faces.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
I ain’t follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It’s just grindin’, ya feel me? You just gotta grind.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Everyone thinks they’re the hero in their own story.
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.
I got my own back.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
I’ve chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
This above all; to thine own self be true.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I don’t want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.
Everyone grows at their own pace, and you shouldn’t compare yourself to anyone.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ‘acres of diamonds.’
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
I once said, ‘We will bury you,’ and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
I have my own batting style and don’t want to be compared with Kohli.
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
Life prepares you so that you are able to create your own happy ending.
My private life is my own business.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I’m the best at getting my own point across.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there’s a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
You really don’t need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.
I don’t aspire to be like other drivers – I aspire to be unique in my own way.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
I will respect anyone who thinks differently, but I know what I have in my heart and only God can judge me. If everybody took care of their own lives only we would have less prejudice in this world.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
I am often the brunt of my own humor.
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
I don’t need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Every single woman is beautifully unique, and the sexiest thing she can do is own her curves, embrace her differences, and stand tall in exactly who she is.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
I’m very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that’s it.
When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
There’s no need to dress like everyone else. It’s much more fun to create your own look.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
I don’t like following in people’s footsteps; I like making my own trail.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn’t refer to anything that’s real. If it’s consistent, if it’s entertaining, if it’s interesting, it justifies its being there.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.
Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can’t force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.
To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.
Each day provides its own gifts.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
When I was young we weren’t even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it ‘vernacular,’ as if only English was the real tongue.
There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.
The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Every man is his own hell.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
We’re always going to argue about abortion. It’s a hard choice and it’s controversial, and that’s why I’m pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
It’s either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain’t gonna get too far ’cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don’t believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
I’ll be the judge of my own manliness.
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
It’s not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
My clients can choose their own colours and fabrics to have something unique in their wardrobes.
The world, when you look at it, it just can’t be random. I mean, it’s so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we’ve seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Fragrance, to me, is a scent that you can call your own, have other people identify you with, and also express the vibes that you’re feeling that day.
I have my own style and my own body language.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Pave your own path and be fearless.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.
Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don’t. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.
Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.
If you’re wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
Follow your own star!
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won’t lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it’s just the character, not me.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you – unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Follow your own path.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don’t have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.
The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
Economists create their own worlds. We’re like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
I am restless. I don’t mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village.
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Don’t forget, you are the hero of your own story.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
There’s really no secret to success. You make your own success.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
I love sneakers on a girl. I don’t know why, but I guess it’s because I’m still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style – a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she’s wearing and works what she’s got.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world – you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God’s law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ‘finding himself.’ If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
I just stay in my own lane and not worry about what anyone else is doing and settling my own pace.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
When you DJ, you’re just on your own, which is nice because there’s no argument.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to ‘defend’ animals.
As long as you feel good in something, it doesn’t matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You’ll never regret wearing something you really love.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go… They can own companies and apartments… but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one’s own culture.
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see – they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
We are the hero of our own story.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
I’m in my own little lane, doing just me. I don’t have to fit in.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one’s own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
I’m my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error… failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually… you roll with the punches.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren’t doing it right.
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
I’ve always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
You can’t call it an adventure unless it’s tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we’ve all got to go after our own Everest.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
It’s just a matter of finding the styles, finding the fabrics, shapes, that accentuate your own body. You can’t be altered, but the clothes can.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
A man’s dying is more his survivor’s affair than his own.
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
Way I see it, everyone plays their own role in the world, and no role is more important than the other.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
The ego is not master in its own house.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Everyone’s the hero in their own story. You’ve lived your life. You’re the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
I love you more than my own skin.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.
My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!
We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don’t realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
