Own Quotes

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

I don't even own a cell phone.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.