Top 100 Your Own Words Quotes
#1. If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. Mind your own Brazilian! The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.
OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.
Sophie Kinsella
#3. It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing
how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'
and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.
Joyce Carol Oates
#4. Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.
Gemma Malley
#5. I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
David Levithan
#6. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.
Toni Sorenson
#7. Oh, yes, that's right--my terms. I'm sorry, but you'll have to state clearly, for the record, in your own words, your clear-minded and sober intention to ride my dick. Actually, let me go get a witness, just to be on the safe side ...
Mercy Brown
#8. Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
Amy Neftzger
#9. Prosthetics can fix physical disabilities. But no prosthetic can fix an amputated spirit. So, don't let the society devoid you from your own spirit. Be brave and upright, and delve into even the depth of doom to achieve your goal.
Abhijit Naskar
#10. Losing yourself in words is like finding yourself stuck in the
pages. But never forget for every blank page you have the
opportunity to release your own imagination.
Katrina Thompson
#11. All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Ming-Dao Deng
#12. Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.
Seth
#14. The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you ...
Frederick William Robertson
#15. There is a majesty to lucid dreaming that is almost beyond words. To find yourself present and aware in another world, a universe within your own mind, is simply so far removed from our daily "normal" experiences that it can quite literally take your breath away.
Daniel Love
#16. Everything in its own time. If your time is not right now, your right now may be soon.
Steven Cuoco
#17. Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.
Salil Jha
#18. Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
Audre Lorde
#20. Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.
Tyler Perry
#21. Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.
Alexandra Katehakis
#22. you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again...
~Ichigo Kurosaki
Tite Kubo
#23. Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#24. Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#25. Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.
Trent Shelton
#26. If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. It's hard to hear others when your own words overwhelm your thoughts.
Heather Lyons
#28. Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental capacity.
Emma Paul
#29. Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.
Dave Barry
#30. You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
Stewart Brand
#31. The world was made by God's Word ... make your own world with your words.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#32. Mark my words, you will rue this day, lament it in tears. You will come to me on your knees sobbing, begging for forgiveness. But I will tell you now and I will tell you then, you are on your own, Skyla.
Addison Moore
#33. Trust in your own instincts and wisdom, and not in the words and fears of experts.
Richard Carlson
#34. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
Susan B. Anthony
#35. So, in your own words, what did this monster take from you?' Ruth thought for a moment. 'Light.
Angela Marsons
#36. Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
Martin Luther
#38. Today look in the mirror and say 10 positive things about yourself !! Regardless of what other people say about you, your OWN words have more power over the direction of your life than other peoples. Speak positive and know that you are somebody!
Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
#39. Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.
Jack Black
#40. I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.
Francisco Costa
#41. You plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. In other words, take responsibility for your own needs and your own happiness.
Maggi Myers
#42. You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words.
M.F. Moonzajer
#43. A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.
Janet Fitch
#44. Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.
Dan Groat
#45. You should always use your own words when telling a girl that you love her.
Suzanne Harper
#46. If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
Terence McKenna
#47. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Eboo Patel
#48. The Bible doesn't teach you to follow rules. It is a picture of Jesus. While words may tell you what God is like and even what he may want from you, you cannot do any of it on your own. Life and living are in him and in no other.
Wm. Paul Young
#49. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
Behind every word flows energy.
Sonia Choquette
#50. Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.
Tim Kimmel
#51. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#52. The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are.
Rusty Blackwood
#53. Young sir, this merchant is in the right, and whatever his trade may be, his blood is as good as your own. After your brave words, either you should fight him or take back the blow you gave. Then he leaned down
H. Rider Haggard
#54. If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.
Morrissey
#55. I still hadn't learned the power of words. How, once they have left your mouth, they have a breath and a life of their own. I had yet to realize that you no longer own them. I hadn't learned that, once you have let them go, the words can then, in fact, become the owner of you.
Joanna Cannon
#56. One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
#57. You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You will feel touched when you really see how your words have made their life so much better. Those are kind of words that make you known to the inhabitants of eternity.
Toba Beta
#58. Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.
Gena D. Lutz
#59. Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. His words hung between us for the longest time before he whispered, "Someone you could lean on when you were tired of standing on your own." Was he fucking serious? Did he really think I saw him as weak? Or unworthy in any sense of the word? "I
Sloane Kennedy
#61. Write from truth, write from self.
Writing theory or conceptual writing may be
A way to create new forms or styles but in the end?
The Words Must Be Your Own.
R.M. Engelhardt
#62. With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, 'to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.' These words are in every heart in the mating season.
Leonora Carrington
#63. The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.
Deb Caletti
#64. To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears.
Nikki Rowe
#65. Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!
Mini Grey
#66. You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.
Tom Weston-Jones
#68. When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Gao Xingjian
#70. Emotion~Writing a scene that you have to walk away from because you can't see the words through your own tears.~M. L. Stephens
M.L. Stephens
#71. Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Marc Morial
#73. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?
Jonathan Maberry
#75. Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
David Mitchell
#76. Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don't want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won't tell me what I want to hear.
Ann Aguirre
#77. See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin.
Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg
#78. Do not depend on good motivator!
Find your words of self-motivation!
Toba Beta
#79. I hate set dissertations,
and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.
Laurence Sterne
#80. The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
#81. CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.
Morihei Ueshiba
#82. My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
Laozi
#83. It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.
Robin Benway
#84. There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let life itself become your teacher.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#85. (The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie.
Priscilla Shirer
#86. Melbourne said I'll put it in my own words: the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right - " "What
Harper Lee
#87. Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.
Peter Anderson
#88. The words that come direct from the people are the greatest ... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
Dorothea Lange
#89. Words are strange that way, aren't they? Your own thoughts can sound unfamiliar and strange when they are out there, spoken in the world, as though they have taken on a life of their own.
Anna Elliott
#90. Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.
Peter Lindbergh
#93. I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
Wallace Shawn
#94. If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?
Galileo Galilei
#95. I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
Nina Conti
#96. Enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.
Emily Carr
#97. You made peace," said the buffalo man. "You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here - and the people who worshiped them were here - because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
Neil Gaiman
#98. To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.
Giacomo Casanova
#99. I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.
Dai Sijie
#100. When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.
Teresa Medeiros
