Own Words Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Own Words

Own Words Quotes & Sayings

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

Singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices. — Laini Taylor

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?' — Erma Bombeck

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. — Shannon L. Alder

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves. — Travis J. Dahnke

People may like a person's thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart. — Anuj

When Luke's ready, mark my words, he'll get his own f**kin' woman and God save us all. — Kristen Ashley

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. — Hugh Hefner

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls. — Wallace Shawn

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions. — Chris Brogan

Do not depend on good motivator!
Find your words of self-motivation! — Toba Beta

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. — Ayn Rand

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker. — Gustave Flaubert

Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them. — Jacqueline Winspear

The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are. — Rusty Blackwood

What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble. — Al Ries

Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words. — Ann Patchett

I am yours," she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips. — Kiersten White

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

All you need are the words I give you here and your own honest efforts. — Bikram Choudhury

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own. — Pai Kit Fai

Be your own limited edition. — Steven Cuoco

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. — Charles II Of England

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another. — Gerald Brenan

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson

The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination. — Ocean Crisstopher Poet

You resist my words because of your own insecurities and the fear that right now you could be the God that you truly are. — Jamila Hammad

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. — Ming-Dao Deng

It was the happiest Christmas Eve he had ever spent. To quote his own words, he had a rotten Christmas. — Saki

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. — Carol Burnett

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. — Dalai Lama XIV

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are. — Gemma Malley

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries — Robin Craig Clark

If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own. — Emma Paul

Boldly walk on own path. You will find your treasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. — George Berkeley

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told! — K.A. Gunn

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord. — J. A. Jance

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. — Zeno Of Citium

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. — Craig Brown

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use? — Richard Paul Evans

The words are said. We're one. You will have my name and all that I own, Nova. We are one. You saved my life. But more than that, you saved my soul. — Candace Sams

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language. — Mitch Hedberg

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. — Patrick Delany

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words:
- Milo — Norton Juster

If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others. — David Nicol

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. — Paul Claudel

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — Jose Saramago

You can put anything into words, except your own life — Max Frisch

Words are like leaves, ... like people really, fond of their own society. — Jasper Fforde

I presume that House Arryn remembers its own words," the Imp said. "As High as Honor. — George R R Martin

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.
Otherwise, you are dead. — Langston Hughes

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own
my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven

So, in your own words, what did this monster take from you?' Ruth thought for a moment. 'Light. — Angela Marsons

Words were cannibals eating up their own past.

-- Like Being Killed — Ellen Miller

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence. — Steven Aitchison

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne

You are your own star. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Each interpreted the other's words in his own way, and the lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect Mutual misunderstanding. — Milan Kundera

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle. — Kurt Vonnegut

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being. — Frederick Lenz

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. — Victoria Secunda

In other words, he explained, unless we bear witness to God's presence by our own good deeds, He is not present. — Thomas L. Friedman

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. — Lev Shestov

Afraid of the tangle of words twisting around my own tongue, I swallow and place my hand against the thick wood of the Barrier. — Carrie Ryan

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words. — Steve Maraboli

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise. — Saul Bellow

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. — Elizabeth Edwards

The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. Right now they take pieces of me with them. — Victoria Schwab

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands. — Richelle E. Goodrich

MIND YOUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA BUSINESS — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge. — Frans De Waal

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar. — Roger Zelazny

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. — Betty Eadie

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. — Edgar Allan Poe

Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me. — Eula Biss

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. — Rachel Corrie

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words. — Andrew Weil

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words. — Winston Churchill

The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own. — Max Patrick

Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader. — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. — Gao Xingjian

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric. — Allen Ginsberg

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one. — Stewart Brand

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what 'my own good' truly was — Claudia Gray

But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own. — Madeleine L'Engle

What have you eaten today?"
"Humble pie, my own words, and a little crow. All three taste like shit. — Rachel Vincent

Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion. — Neal Shusterman

At times I couldn't recognize my own words, because I was still so often afraid in my life. — Melanie Benjamin