Own Quotes

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.