Own Quotes

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

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

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Art lies by its own artifice.

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.