Own Quotes

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.