Own Quotes

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

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.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Follow your own star!

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.