Own Quotes

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.