Own Quotes

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold

if the market shut down for 10 years.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours

is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,

but most of them never happened.

A man cannot be comfortable

without his own approval.

Adapt what is useful,

reject what is useless,

and add what is specifically your own.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

The bird is

powered by

its own life

and by

its motivation.

Tell me,

why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths,

our achievements?

We are such a great nation.

We have so many amazing success stories

but we refuse to acknowledge them.

Why?

You have to run your own race,

at your own pace.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth

is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves

when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep

into our own natures.

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

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to

keep a young man down; and they will succeed,

too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from

its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Associate yourself with men of good quality

if you esteem your own reputation;

for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Why was the amendment,

expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery,

voted down?

Plainly enough now,

the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche

for the Dred Scott decision.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as

spending our lives running from it.

I don't have a therapist,

so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Philosophically considered,

the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us,

all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is,

both nature and art,

all other men and my own body,

must be ranked under this name,

Nature.