Own Quotes

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.