Own Quotes

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.