Own Quotes

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.