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" Quotes and Sayings About one's own

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Greed Lack Confidence Ability
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Worth Self-knowledge Know Mind
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Being Boy Duty Emotion
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As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Admitted Cause Doubting Even
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own

Camera Eventually Everyone Makes
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Help Distress Lighten Own
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Self Determination Independent Independent
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Country Foot Foreign Foreign Land
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Contempt Culture Require Disrespect
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Acquired Efforts Encourage Endeavor
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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Another Better Does Duty
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Always Character Deal Even
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Accuse Begun Complete Education
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority

Jealousy Suspicion Own Inferiority
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others

Tolerance Lack Commitment Belief
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Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Ah Beware Failings Own
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cannot Disposition Increase Only
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Any Attitude Choose Circumstances
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Opportunities Thanks Courage Wisdom
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Dark Heart Inexorable Jailer
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Absolute Acquired Artist Been
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Abuse Against Beauty Been
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism Appraising Own value
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

According Become Belief Blind
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

First Hands Head Heart
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

First Hands Heat Heart
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Impossible Underrate Human intelligence One's own
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Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
Free means Ability Deal with Own situation
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The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Virtue Privacy Protected Matters
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In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

Private sanctuary Own conscience Spirit Determination
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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Time Submit Guidance Own way
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Reading Equivalent Thinking Someone else
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Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

Education Award Self confidence Courage
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One is best in one's own country.

One Best Own Country
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

Object Philosophy Mind People's
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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Confidence Honesty Testimony Integrity
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