Own Quotes

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.