Own Quotes

If you think Independence Day

is America's defining holiday,

think again.

Thanksgiving deserves

that title, hands

down

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you,

speak the very truth,

as your life and conscience teach it,

and cheer the waiting,

fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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,

those who never mount the high wire,

This is your moment,

Own it.

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own,

and you know what you know.

And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

The mother art is architecture.

Without an architecture of our own

we have no soul of our own civilization.

Knock me down nine times,

but I get up ten.

Work out your own salvation.

Do not depend on others.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

India should walk on her own shadow

we must have our own development model.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method

for dealing with the darkness of other people.

As we are, so we associate.

The good, by affinity,

seek the good;

the vile, by affinity, the vile.

Thus of their own volition,

souls proceed into Heaven,

into Hell.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man

without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Be happy with being you.

Love your flaws.

Own your quirks.

And know that you are

just as perfect

as anyone else,

exactly as you are.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed

to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Don’t bend;

don’t water it down;

don’t try to make it logical;

don’t edit your own soul.

Sometimes, when I see

my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own,

I wish I were a child.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on

our own ‘to do’ list.

When you become the image of your own imagination,

it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.

To thine own self be true.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers

you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale