Own Quotes

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.