Own Quotes

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.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

I like to control my own personal life.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

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.