Top 100 One Person Is Quotes
#1. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
Walter Mosley
#2. If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Ann Oakley
#3. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.
Michelle Erickson
#4. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?
Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.
Ellen Ullman
#5. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
Virginia Woolf
#6. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.
Renee Sloan
#7. To be in love with the person who want to "Be the one that you can't live without" and is willing to prove it with their love for you, is one of the greatest joys in life.
Ellen J. Barrier
#8. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
Henry Hampton
#9. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#10. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne
#11. Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
Bernard Madoff
#12. One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.
Marcel Marceau
#13. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.
Katie McGarry
#14. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.
Deepak Chopra
#15. A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.
Rebecca Goldstein
#16. Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.
Victor J. Banis
#17. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.
James Baldwin
#18. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
Michael N. Castle
#19. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.
Anthony The Great
#20. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.
David Wilkerson
#21. You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength to save yourself, you realize that the person you'll ever need is yourself.
Gabriel Common
#22. There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
Margaret Mead
#23. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#24. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character ...
John Stuart Mill
#26. Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
Jeremy Corbyn
#27. What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
Jorge Luis Borges
#28. I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.
Deb Caletti
#29. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#30. You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.
David Lagercrantz
#31. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
Jim Rohn
#32. Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
Chet Atkins
#33. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Anderson Cooper
#34. Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...
Deborah Moggach
#35. One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.
Margo Kaufman
#36. Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.
David Anthony Durham
#37. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
#39. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#41. A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
Garrison Keillor
#42. One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. Nah, he's a good person, and fun, too. The point is, he called saying that he was in trouble, and need our help." "No, Patrick, you're the one who needs help.
Ryan Roy
#44. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.
Arsene Wenger
#45. In mediumship, we cannot overlook the phenomenon of attunement. We attract Spirits that attune with us and to which we are also attracted. If it is true that each person gives according to what he or she has, then it is unquestionable that each one receives according to what he or she gives.
Andre Luiz
#46. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.
Gregg Braden
#47. In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way.
Scott Adams
#48. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
#49. The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!
Robert Musil
#50. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
Hanya Yanagihara
#51. The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
Arthur C. Clarke
#52. It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Gaston Bachelard
#53. If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along, one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us - that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.
Billy Graham
#54. Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the other. Instead, joy can actually be a companion to suffering.
Edward T. Welch
#55. I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.
Martha Stewart
#56. There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.
Ari Fleischer
#57. One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#58. is not the time you spend with someone, it is what happens in that time. I have known people for years, and yet never met the real person inside, if there is one. Others I have spoken with for only an hour or two, and yet what was said had meaning and honesty that will last forever.
Anne Perry
#59. Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one
Kate Walbert
#60. There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.
Amy Hastings
#61. One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed is like a rotten loaf of bread, which looks all right outside, but inside is mouldy, so that if anyone breaks it its rottenness appears. - Dorotheos
Dee Pennock
#62. When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.
Susan Blackmore
#63. The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.
Tim Field
#64. In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan
a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.
Joanne Stepaniak
#65. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
#66. Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.
John McWhorter
#67. Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.
Stacy London
#68. I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
George R R Martin
#69. Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown his life and his person into the 'venture of the public realm.
Hannah Arendt
#70. The Greatest challenge in one person's lifetime is the challenge within yourself.
Harel R. Lawrence
#71. The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.
Tamora Pierce
#72. I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.
Drew Brees
#73. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.
M. Scott Peck
#74. Freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
Gabriel Marcel
#75. Your friend is convinced she is unlovable, unreachable. Depression can do that to a person. She thinks no one can understand her. She ignores all evidence to the contrary, and it has led her to make some very tragic decisions.
Sarah Fine
#76. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Justin Trudeau
#77. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#78. If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.
James Altucher
#79. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#80. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris
#81. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.
Cecily McMillan
#82. Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.
Thomas Mann
#83. One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton
#84. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. It is one-way love.
Preston Sprinkle
#85. A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.
Lisa Wingate
#86. There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
Wayne Dyer
#87. If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.
Edward Steichen
#88. But is it that easy? Can she just decide not to be that person anymore - the one she hates? Can she really move on?
Kathryn Holmes
#89. Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.
Robert Knepper
#90. Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him ... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
Bindi Irwin
#91. Most common thing in marriage is to see the man or the woman, or both, each in their own way, trying to destroy the third person that they form together, the one that resists, that wants to survive regardless,
Jose Saramago
#92. Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#93. A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
Daisaku Ikeda
#94. It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
Dolores Ibarruri
#95. No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.
Srinivas Shenoy
#96. What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next.
Tom Rath
#97. The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#98. Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
Cristiane Serruya
#99. In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.
William Golding
#100. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.
Donna Lynn Hope
