Own Quotes

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.