Own Quotes

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.