Own Quotes

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Islam is about finding your own space.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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.

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.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.