On My Own Quotes

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel

Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

My personal wish would be to have my own TV show but, if I could have anything, my wish for the world is that no one on the Earth would ever go hungry.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.'

We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.

I'm old school. I'm locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you're going to get bit. They'll always know where I'm coming from and once we hit the floor, there's no doubt.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion