He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.
As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
While everyone of all political stripes are admitting that the surge is working and dramatically reducing the level of bloodshed in Iraq, Obama managed to complain that the Iraqis aren't spending as much in rebuilding their own country as a result of the surge.
To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.