Own Quotes

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.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Every man is his own hell.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.