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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.
I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
You can pull off anything if you have the right attitude. Being cool is whatever you think it is. Own your style.
Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.