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.
