Own Quotes

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

You control your own wins and losses.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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.

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.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

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.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

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.

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.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.