In this post, you will find great Own Quotes from famous people, such as Lil Durk, Mother Teresa, Epictetus, Martin Luther, Frank Lloyd Wright. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
Don’t matter if you’re rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Be yourself. Create your own unique style.
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
For we are born in other’s pain, and perish in our own.
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body… is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
You can never really live anyone else‘s life, not even your child‘s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Everybody has their own path. Everybody peaks at different times.
I don’t need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.
I don’t want to follow in anyone’s footsteps. I want to follow my own path and do something unique.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Don’t forget, you are the hero of your own story.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
I’ll be the judge of my own manliness.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
I’m my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error… failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually… you roll with the punches.
I’m in my own little lane, doing just me. I don’t have to fit in.
You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
Everyone thinks they’re the hero in their own story.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
I’m very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that’s it.
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
I don’t have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It’s what’s most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.
My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together.
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own – we will defend it or perish.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
I’d advise the youth to not get influenced or forced by their elders. They should have own political views and choices and the courage to pick the right leader.
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
I got my own back.
The more you own, the more you know you don’t own.
I don’t want to be a thief of my own wallet.
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Everybody is just a stranger, but that’s the danger in going my own way.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
Don’t believe your own publicity. You can’t; you’ll start thinking that you’re better than you are.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
There’s really no secret to success. You make your own success.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don’t. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.
I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you’re walking down the street, or you’re at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they’re wearing – into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
You’re only the boss if you put up your own money.
Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.
Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
No man’s error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren’t doing it right.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.
No man is a hero in his own country.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one’s own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see – they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
As long as you feel good in something, it doesn’t matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You’ll never regret wearing something you really love.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.
Every man is his own hell.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Life prepares you so that you are able to create your own happy ending.
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
I like to pick my own vegetables.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
Economists create their own worlds. We’re like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Don’t be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.
If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.
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.
You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Freedom is control in your own life.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.
Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Follow your own star!
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
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.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Black man, you are on your own.
Peace is its own reward.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
I am my own woman.
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
Every single woman is beautifully unique, and the sexiest thing she can do is own her curves, embrace her differences, and stand tall in exactly who she is.
