Own Quotes

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

My mind is my own church.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.