Own Quotes

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

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 Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.