Own Quotes

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Follow your own star!

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

I love you more than my own skin.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

The body has a mind of its own.