Own Quotes

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. 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.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.