Own Quotes

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.