Top 100 Quotes About On Your Own
#1. Miz Beauty does not speak. You've got to discover her erogenous zones, her favorite subjects of conversation, her sign, all on your own. Meanwhile, Miz Piggy's coming like an express train. She doesn't get it every day. And she's hell-bent to make the most of it. She wants more, more, more.
Dany Laferriere
#2. Focus on your own lane, go at your own pace, don't look sideways. Someone else's success does not have to impact you or detract from what you achieve.
Zoe Sugg
#3. Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.
Belle De Jour
#4. You will find little comfort in beating yourself up throughout life. You will find great comfort in life the moment you start being on your own side.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#5. Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.
Leighton Meester
#6. You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.
David Duval
#7. You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.
Emma Roberts
#8. I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.
Dennis Christopher
#9. You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you ...
Ville Valo
#10. The "word of the Lord" is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.
Priscilla Shirer
#11. It's fine to be able to stand on your own, admirable, but I think you also need to prove to yourself that it's okay if you don't have to. That it's okay to choose to not be alone. To choose to let someone support you, emotionally and otherwise.
T.L. Haddix
#12. So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone
Gill Robb Wilson
#13. 10. You have to deal with stuff on your own and that's all there is to it.
Adam Rapp
#14. Success lies in being true to yourself - and living life on your own terms.
Robin S. Sharma
#15. When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.
Janet Fitch
#16. Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown on your own resources, which may be limited, and you're really in a fix. So I think that's authentic to the experience that it might be very lonely.
Whit Stillman
#17. Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.
Laura Bell Bundy
#18. Whatever path you choose, whatever star you wish to pray, people will judge you...live your life on your own terms
Tommy Sorrow
#19. You shouldn't have to be forced to be strong on your own because no one will stand with you. Your dad failed you, Noah failed you. I will not fail you again.
Tarryn Fisher
#20. It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.
Blake Lively
#21. I'm afraid I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. You're on your own, girl.
Cheshire Cat
#22. Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.
Harold Ramis
#23. You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church!
John Patrick Shanley
#24. Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it ... It's no good to be on your own.
Judi Dench
#25. Refuse to feel like a foreigner on your own planet. The country you live in is simply another physical location of your own home.
Ben Tolosa
#26. My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get back on your own, right?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#28. When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
Peter Hook
#29. You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
Jeff Foxworthy
#30. Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards
Bob Crow
#31. You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.
Jennifer Lopez
#32. Where there is love, there will be an abundance of success and love. However, love is something within us. So focus on your own self-worthiness, and love will begin to blossom within you, around you, for you and for others in your life.
Vishwas Chavan
#33. We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
Bucky Sinister
#34. There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.
Jack White
#35. My new rule for life. Don't go into spooky dark woods on your own."
"You're not on your own.
Sophie Kinsella
#36. You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
Patrick McGoohan
#37. All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships.
Stephen R. Covey
#38. But I knew better; there was no real relief from it.You just had to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed to much, to heavy, to hold on your own.
Alexandra Bracken
#39. You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.
Steve Pavlina
#40. Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
Jennifer Carpenter
#41. You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont be a healthy relationship.
Megan Park
#42. Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
Octavia Butler
#43. If you are uncomfortable meeting people on your own, the perfect way to do it is to volunteer to help greet those who arrive. This way, you have a purposeful task that is meeting people. Be sure to wear your name tag (on the right side of your body, please) and have business cards at the ready.
Beth Ramsay
#44. Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.
Davis Bunn
#45. You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.
Jane Goodall
#46. Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you.
Taeyang
#47. My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.
Marie Helvin
#48. Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out.
Paul Simonon
#49. The stacks keeps you on your toes. Besides which, there are rumours of ape-men living down here; I don't know how the rumours got started, but this place is more than somewhat creepy when you're on your own late at night.
Charles Stross
#50. Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.
David D. Burns
#51. 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
#52. I wish I could teach you how to live happily ever after, Petra," she said, "but that is something you will have to learn on your own.
Marie Rutkoski
#53. The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
Lauren Oliver
#54. A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go.
James S.A. Corey
#55. He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].
Pharoah Sanders
#56. Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
Joe Louis
#57. That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.
Jenny Lewis
#58. The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.
Ted Nicholas
#59. Maybe that's what love is all about. Being humble enough to admit you can't make it on your own. You need a person in order to call a place home. You need love to save you from yourself. You need to love another person so you give a little something every day.
Katie Kacvinsky
#60. I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with something on your own, it's an addictive feeling.
Brett Dennen
#61. 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
#62. If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
Paget Brewster
#63. If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#64. What's this? (Fang)
One for all and all for fun, my friend. You didn't think I'd let you fight demons all on your own, did you? (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
Richard Rogers
#66. There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve.
Archibald Marwizi
#67. You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating.
Kate Bornstein
#68. When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Confucius
#69. There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.
Dawn Powell
#70. You must give up your right to decide what is good and evil on your own terms. That is a hard pill to swallow - choosing to live only in me. To do that, you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness.
William Paul Young
#71. Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
Jonathan Tropper
#72. It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.
Erma Bombeck
#73. But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Cathy Lamb
#74. Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
Norman Vincent Peale
#75. One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.
John O'Donohue
#76. You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
Connie Mack
#77. Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it's disappointing.
Edward W. Robertson
#78. When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
Rick Santelli
#80. If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.
Michael Pollan
#81. You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are ... off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
Elizabeth Berg
#82. Grace means suddenly you're in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own.
Anne Lamott
#83. The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.
John Wesley
#84. While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart ... once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.
Leigh Newman
#85. Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
Anne Sweeney
#86. If you aren't busy working on your own goals, you'll be working to achieve somebody else's goals.
Kevin Kruse
#87. Without God's power in your life, you are just running on your own energy. God never meant for you to do that. It's like having a laptop that's unplugged; the battery will eventually drain and shut down the computer. Why would you live like that when God created you for so much more?
Rick Warren
#88. You don't live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own ... I just helped you find the strength to inhale.
Lisa De Jong
#89. You gotta stand up and walk, Gem," he said quietly, turning his back on them. "You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet."
So I did.
Alexandra Bracken
#90. But, for me, yes. I have to be with Anna. But this is something you have to figure out on your own.
Stephanie Perkins
#92. The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon
#93. I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back ... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings.
Mark Haddon
#94. The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
Gavid Hood
#95. It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die.
Carol Shields
#96. You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
Courtney Love
#97. I don't see you making it to the top; nobody's going to help you get there. You have to do it all on your own. But if you want it so bad, prove me wrong.
Nabil N. Jamal
#98. If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Martha Beck
#99. And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?
Veronica Rossi
#100. In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.
Charlie Hunnam
