Own Quotes

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

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.