There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
Ann Coulter

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

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

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt