Own Affairs Quotes
30 quotes by 25 authors
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
— Michel de Montaigne
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as…
— James Anthony Froude
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I don't know people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so…
— Betty White
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You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control…
— Bobby Sands
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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
— Warren Buffett
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You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
— Willis Lamb
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The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is…
— Melody Beattie
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he…
— John Stuart Mill
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We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess…
— Baltasar Gracian
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When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful…
— Richard M. Nixon
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
— John Muir
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A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the…
— Marcus Garvey
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Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Who Wrote These Own Affairs Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 30 Own Affairs Quotes as follows: