Own Quotes

Every man is his own hell.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.