On My Own Quotes

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

Ever since I was old enough to remember my own actions, I realized that when I am passionate about something, I must do it 130%, regardless of what other passions I may already be pursuing.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.