Top 616 Own Quotes

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.