Top 100 In Your Own Quotes
#1. My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. The more you develop it in your own being, the more it overwhelms your surroundings and by and by might oversweep the world.
M K Gandhi
#2. If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.
Mas Oyama
#3. There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."
Graham Taylor
#4. You are perfect in your own dysfunctional way. And it's exactly what I want. - Fenn
Candace Knoebel
#5. I'm not some outdated alarm company, like Muldoon Security, singular. I'm offering a whole new variety of services, plural - water testing, soil graphs, toxic air readings, the security of this century. The security that you aren't being poisoned in your own home.
Christopher Bollen
#6. You need to be a "good-enough mom"
attentive, loving, and responsive. No one is the perfect mom. As long as you try to be perfect, you will continue to be insignificant in your own eyes.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#7. Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
Mary Kay Ash
#8. Become gloriously comfortable in your own skin, however awkward the fit.
Srividya Srinivasan
#9. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .
Stephen King
#10. Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire ... and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.
Charles Dickens
#11. Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!
Milton William Cooper
#12. If you're looking for hope and change, you'll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It's the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.
Mary Matalin
#13. It's about how to deal with the idea killer in your own head, the part of your brain where fear and knowledge keep you from executing the brilliant ideas your mind generates every day.
Kevin Kelly
#14. There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome.
Derek Walcott
#17. I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.
Debby Ryan
#18. Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
Jim Rohn
#20. listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.
Ryan Holiday
#21. THE NECESSITY OF APPEARING IN YOUR OWN FACE
There are days when that is the last place
in the world that you want to be but you
have to be there, like a movie, because it
features you.
Richard Brautigan
#22. Why would some people attracted to what is unfamiliar and others tat what they knew. She thought It may to do how comfortable you are in your own life, how well you though you belong
Nell Freudenberger
#23. People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.
Ashley Benson
#24. Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?
Peter Pouncey
#25. No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you're aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happened, that keeps you isolated.
Jodi Picoult
#26. You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
Ray Bradbury
#27. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.
Roy H. Williams
#29. Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Irvin D. Yalom
#30. If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
#31. You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.
Lady Gaga
#32. I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?
C.S. Lewis
#33. Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
Jon Katz
#34. Having total belief in your own efforts can't help much but can only be your best point of total failure.
Auliq Ice
#35. I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
Laurie Colwin
#36. With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
Scott Bakula
#37. To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
Mark Steyn
#38. For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.
Kirk Cameron
#39. Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.
Carew Papritz
#40. If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.
George Sweeting
#41. To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.
Jessica Fechtor
#42. Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.
Stephen R. Covey
#43. September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.
John Major
#44. Never live life in your own shadow. Instead, break free and allow your soul to soar!
A.C. Willis
#45. To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'
Rebecca McClanahan
#46. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
Maeve Binchy
#47. Think about people in your own life who you have envied for one reason or another. It may surprise you to know that they do not see themselves the way that you do. Maybe they are all smiles on the outside but have personal struggles and trials that you would never guess from first glance.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#48. The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
Julie Powell
#50. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
Morihei Ueshiba
#51. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.
Samantha Stosur
#52. There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
#53. Who you're both the good & 'the bad', your strengths & 'weaknesses' make you unique. Embrace who you're and be comfortable in your own skin.
Assegid Habtewold
#54. In the Forest,' comments Mr. Crawfford, 'ev'ryone comes 'round in a Circle sooner or later. One day, your foot comes down in your own shit. There, as the Indians say, is the first Step upon the Trail to Wisdom.
Thomas Pynchon
#55. The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
Orison Swett Marden
#56. I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.
Martha Washington
#57. The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Alan Paton
#58. There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
Keith Richards
#59. You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
#60. What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
Dogen
#61. Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.
Bremer Acosta
#62. Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.
Lynne Eisaguirre
#63. I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.
Isla Fisher
#64. Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie Ten Boom
#65. In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.
Martin Seligman
#66. It's the same for most of us but one of the best things I learned was to stay out of the bars and also to try to stay off the street. I fail sometimes to stay off the streets but not too often. the finest place on earth to drink is in your own place and alone. you probably know all this. all right.
Charles Bukowski
#67. At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.
Auliq Ice
#68. It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.
J.R. Ward
#69. He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.
Patrick Suskind
#70. You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
Frederick Lenz
#71. Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.
Bryant McGill
#72. When I was 20 or 21, I didn't ... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.
Thierry Henry
#73. Go get a job. Whether it's working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it's a reality of life. In the end it's going to be helpful to you and so many others.
Anna Wintour
#74. I think what makes someone pretty amazing is being comfortable in your own skin.
Brendan Dooling
#75. It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.
Scott Kelly
#76. Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!
Napoleon Hill
#77. Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
Tony Hsieh
#78. You can never lose a fight in your own bar, because if you do, it's not your bar anymore.
Ilona Andrews
#79. It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
John Lasseter
#80. Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Larry Flynt
#81. In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami
#82. It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.
S.J. Parris
#83. If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.
Bryant McGill
#84. The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature.
Ellen G. White
#86. Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.
Glenn Beck
#87. For me, writing [was] a question of survival ... I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
Gao Xingjian
#88. When you're older you will know that at some unconscious level not only did you see it coming, but you created it, in your own blind, stumbling way. You will console yourself with the fact that it wouldn't have mattered, seeing it or not seeing it. You were a sponge for incident.
Stephanie Danler
#90. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.
Michael Marcus
#91. The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.
Billy Graham
#92. Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
David Levithan
#94. The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.
Ken Wilber
#95. Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
Anne Frank
#96. If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.
Brian Koppelman
#97. Stay in your car in your lane on your road in your world. Stay in your own lane. Don't be minding other people's spiritual business. Stay in your car. In your lane. On your road. In your world.
Iyanla Vanzant
#98. The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.
Ayn Rand
#99. Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.
Roseanne Barr
#100. To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Ellen DeGeneres
