Quotes About Owning Up

#1. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.

Anne Perry

#2. There's something really cathartic about that, about owning up to your truth.

Kevin Kwan

#3. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Jessi Kirby

#4. If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Desmond Tutu

#5. Management has to create a climate where owning up to mistakes is permissible and colleagues have to agree, collectively, to cut each other some slack. I

Chris Hadfield

#6. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

#7. Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

Tina Brown

#8. Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

Richard J. Foster

#9. Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

Willard Scott

#10. I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.

Tana French

#11. 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

Eddi Reader

#12. Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

Clement Freud

#13. When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do.

Drishti Bablani

#14. Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

John Cage

#15. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

J.D. Roth

#16. In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes [ ... ], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not owning to some blessed pill or potion [ ... ] or at least without our knowing that the loving hand of despair slipped us the drug.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman

#18. You're allowed to practice humility while also owning your greatness. Don't you dare minimize your greatness.

Erica Alex

#19. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#20. As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.

Ashley Purdy

#21. I think that you are an uptight, pony-owning, trickle-down-economics-loving, Scotch-on-the-rocks-drinking, my-wife-better-take-my-last-name sexist jerk!

Julie James

#22. Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Marilyn Monroe

#23. Brian: I love books
Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?

David Nicholls

#24. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

Umair Haque

#25. In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

Zach Condon

#26. He pulls up outside my duplex. I belatedly realize he's not asked me where I live - yet he knows. But then he sent the books, of course he knows where I live. What able, cell-phone-tracking, helicopter owning, stalker wouldn't.

E.L. James

#27. The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

Peter Enns

#28. Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.

Meghan Daum

#29. The things you own, end up owning you.
Tyler Durden

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. Owning a dog is like having a demanding manner-less friend who never bathes themselves but which somehow ends up spending every single night on your couch.

Matte Resist

#31. You never come closer to owning the whole world than when you wake up before everyone else. There

Asa Larsson

#32. The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

#33. Like Rosaleen and Arthur's house, this had the feel of generations of people who had lived there before, families that had grown up, run and shouted through the hallways, broken things, grown things, fallen in love. Instead of the occupants owning the house, the house owned a part of each of them.

Cecelia Ahern

#34. The things you own end up owning you.

Joshua Fields Millburn

#35. For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

Zosia Mamet

#36. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

George Lucas

#37. Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Peter Brimelow

#38. I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.

Nina Garcia

#39. Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are reaching for the excuse of lead poisoning. If they can push that idea through, you may wind up still owning your guns but without anything to shoot in them.

Jeff Cooper

#40. What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

Nobu Matsuhisa

#41. Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Chris Van Hollen

#42. Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Roth

#43. You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Steve Wozniak

#44. For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

Lynn Jurich

#45. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it : it is yours. So with me : I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#46. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Bill Burr

#47. I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

Roman Abramovich

#48. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Suze Orman

#49. As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

Karen Kingsbury

#50. You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Andy Stanley

#51. You were able to kill him," Will said. You, a girl. That's what he meant. Like owning a vagina made me inferior in some fundamental way.

Laura Thalassa

#52. Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#53. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

Orrin Woodward

#54. Both of them are overjoyed to see me, which is one of the best parts of owning a dog. Unconditional love and enthusiasm, even when you don't deserve it.

Karina Halle

#55. It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Seth Godin

#56. If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad

Smedley Butler

#57. I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Jeff Greene

#58. When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

Gore Vidal

#59. The minimalist path is not about getting rid of everything and owning nothing, it is about living an integrated life in which everything has meaning and value because it is about your way of being.

Ela Garrison

#60. The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

Malcolm Forbes

#61. You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

Bernie Sanders

#62. The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

Tom McClintock

#63. Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.

Jeremy Clarkson

#64. In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the "gun culture" if you will.

Massad Ayoob

#65. Falling in love is like owning a dog.

Taylor Mali

#66. The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

Jeremy Paxman

#67. For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.

Solomon Ortiz

#68. I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

Art Wolfe

#69. As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

Erin O'Connor

#70. There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#71. Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#72. Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

Jared Diamond

#73. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

William Shakespeare

#74. We need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.

Rafe Martin

#75. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

#76. If you don't want your past to own you, try owning your past.

Dan Pearce

#77. I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Lisa Unger

#78. The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.

Charles R. Schwab

#79. If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Warren Buffett

#80. Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

Warren Stephens

#81. He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

Orison Swett Marden

#82. Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

Warren Farrell