Own Quotes

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.