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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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.