On My Own Quotes

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.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I know that's fun for people to talk about who are fans of the franchise, and it's fun to get to kind of have my own feelings about that as well.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.