Own Quotes

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.