Own Quotes

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Those who own much have much to fear.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.