Own Quotes

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.