My Own Quotes

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

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

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

I am a hell raiser. I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

Those who own much have much to fear.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

Good fences make good neighbors.

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.