Own Quotes

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

The body has a mind of its own.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Every man is his own hell.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

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.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.