Own Quotes

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

it’s whether you get up.

Where can we go to find

God if we cannot see Him

in our own hearts and

in every living being.

Fall down seven times,

stand up eight.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

It may be laid down as a primary position,

and the basis of our system,

that every Citizen who enjoys,

the protection of a Free Government,

owes not only a proportion of his property,

but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Nothing stinks like the denial of your own feelings.

Believe in yourself! have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

You have to grow from

the inside out.

None can teach you,

none can make you spiritual

There is no other teacher

but your own soul.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous.

We know the court that made it has

often overruled its own decisions,

and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Each age,

it is found,

must write its own books;

or rather,

each generation for the next succeeding.

Dare to know!

Have the courage to use your own understanding.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

You know,

let's put it this way,

if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery,

if they went on vacation,

there wouldn't be a person left in town.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

It’s not the load that breaks you down;

it’s the way you carry it.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Older people sit down and ask,

What is it?

but the boy asks,

What can I do with it?

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Love yours.

Whatever it is,

love it.

Own it.

Don’t run from it.

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow.

he told me to wear a brown tie.