Own Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

I went from zero to my own hero

I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

I have my own personal wish list.

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know how and when, but I knew that I would fight it.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.