Own Quotes

Many gloat over their own troubles.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.