Own Quotes

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

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.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.