Inspiring Personal Statement Quotes

#1. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold

#2. I've recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can't possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.

Lauren DeStefano

#3. I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.

Queen Latifah

#4. Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. There is a large wooden cross like an X fastened to the wall facing the door. It's made of high-polished mahogany, and there are restraining cuffs on each corner.

E.L. James

#6. Under the tenets of behavioral finance, markets are not always efficient. It is human behavior that moves markets and not the universal information shared by market participants.

Gary Antonacci

#7. My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

Vic Braden

#8. ...it occurred to me that I was stuck somewhere in between, with neither the blind confidence of youth that everything would turn out as imagined nor the experience that builds up as years pass that i wouldn't matter if it didn't.

Neve Maslakovic

#9. Love has many eyes to seek the lost,
many ears to hear the weeping,
many hands to uphold the poor,
and many feet to visit the sick.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. The mind doesn't carry anything on its own, but it capture everything from outside, and stretch them into different experience, impressions or dreams of a person.

Roshan Sharma

#11. It is so much more beautiful than any polar bears in Alaska. Becaues I am here and he is mine and forever is as long as we want it to be.
The rest, as they say, is history.

Hannah Moskowitz

#12. The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

Oswald Chambers

#13. How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Thomas A Kempis

#14. You don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Edwidge Danticat