Own Quotes

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.