Own Quotes

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.