If someone decides to take the law into one's own hands, they risk causing more harm and breaking the law themselves.

If you want to keep your team united, don't shit in your own nest by airing their faults to outsiders.

If one likes the sound of one's own voice, one will often dominate every conversation.

It's easy to trip over one's own two feet when one is exhausted.

At the reunion my grandmother sighed and said it is a wise child that knows his own father, a proverb she used whenever paternity was the subject of gossip.

When she faced setbacks, her mentor reminded her that every man is the architect of his own fortune, so she kept working toward her goals.

As the old proverb warns, no one should be judge in his own cause, so we asked an impartial tribunal to hear the dispute.

When Ethan warned them about the flood, they ignored him — a prophet has no honor in his own country, and familiarity blinded them to his wisdom.

In her journal she confessed that after the business failed she had to raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps and rebuild her life from the ground up.

To succeed in a new city, one must lift oneself up by one's own waistbands, find work, and build a network from scratch.