Own Less Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Own Less

Own Less Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Own Less quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes. — Neil LaBute

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all. — Robin Williams

If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year. — Jen Kirkman

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. — Jonathan Carroll

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own. — Tom Douglas

The more people trust in God, the less will they trust their own judgments, or interfere with the ordering of events. — George MacDonald

The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires. — Melanie Brown

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. — Leslie Grimutter

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Happy had it been for her, if her regard for Edward had depended less on his own merit, than on the merit of his nearest relations! For — Jane Austen

Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? — Hanya Yanagihara

Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own. — Helen McCloy

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people. — Matthew Henry

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband. — Martha Quinn

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Criss Jami

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it. — Christopher McQuarrie

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings. — Eugene Delacroix

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. — Sydney Pollack

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power. — Lysa TerKeurst

I don't pay much attention to politics."
"You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat. — Robert A. Heinlein

Every year I own less of what I use. Possession — Kevin Kelly

I'm not trying to overthink things. I'm trying to be less careful. But you have to be your heart's own goalie. — Becky Albertalli

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. — Uell Stanley Andersen

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money. — Gautama Buddha

It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life. — Marcus Brigstocke

Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition. — Mohamed El-Erian

A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist. — Kevin Focke

I had withdrawn from the townspeople in as many ways as possible, thinking my isolation would be less painful if it came on my own terms. — Erika Robuck

I came to realize that I get less bored on my own than I do in the company of some man who doesn't altogether appeal to me. — Alex Capus

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. — Jim Morrison

The more concerned you are about your own fulfillment, the less fulfilled you will be. — John Ortberg

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own. — Francois Fenelon

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth. — Gabrielle Roy

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts. — Kristen Wiig

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties. — William J.H. Boetcker

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. — Francois Fenelon

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. — Karl Marx

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways — Phillip Gary Smith

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. — Ogden Nash

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own. — Dan Pearce

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams. — Martha Moody

When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success. — Charles F. Glassman

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth. — John Cheever

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada. — Pierre Trudeau

Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit in your bounty. - Hamlet to Polonius — William Shakespeare

Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own. — Zadie Smith

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. — Luc De Clapiers

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. — Vaclav Havel

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives. — Alasdair MacIntyre

The more we have the less we own. — Meister Eckhart

When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don't listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions. — Girdhar Joshi

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy. — Tony Lema

Perhaps because I refuse to be less than the other part of your soul, my lord." "And nothing challenges a man as much as the voice of his own soul. — Joey W. Hill

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. — Sarah Fielding

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want. — Phil Gramm

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. — Vladimir Lenin

To have control of my own mind ... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane. — Brittany Maynard

If people were less the centre of their own universe much trouble and pain would be saved. — S.M. C.

I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either. — Robert A. Heinlein

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever — Edmund Burke

Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness. — Saul Bellow

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful. — Terry Pratchett

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources. — Bo Bennett

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts. — Francois Fenelon

I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms. — Anne Bishop

If we look at things as they are instead of giving them our own shape and colour, life will be less complicated — Santosh Joshi

I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me. — Nathan W. Morris

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work. — Grace Zabriskie

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real. — Heather James

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. — Ned Rorem

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity. — Livy

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom. — Kurt Richebacher

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others. — Neal A. Maxwell

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less. — Bertrand Russell

The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves. — Jacob De Jager

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct. — Jacques Ellul

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does. — Kenneth Tynan

If God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! — C.H.SPURGEON

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet. — Daniel Pinchbeck

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. — Warren Buffett

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others. — Jack Weatherford

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. — Isabel Allende

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years. — Ovid

The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others. — Bryant McGill

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know ... so I made my own world. — Bijan

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil? — Diana Gabaldon

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth. — Bernard Hopkins

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes. — Thomas Watson