Own Quotes

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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.