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4496 Our Own quotes by 2537 unique authors
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
— Isadore Sharp
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
— Oswald Chambers
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are…
— Greg Norman
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I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal…
— Martin Sheen
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When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
— Sakyong Mipham
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Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We…
— Dalai Lama
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Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
— Deepak Chopra
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Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from…
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the…
— John Denver
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I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking…
— Wilma Mankiller
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We have our own brains.
— Pervez Musharraf
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the…
— Martin Sheen
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
— Aldous Huxley
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds…
— Marcel Proust
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For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes…
— Martin Luther
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
— Winston Churchill
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We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.…
— Cesar Chavez
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Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
— Cesar Chavez
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
— Denis Diderot
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