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.
