Own Quotes

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.