Only Takes One Person Quotes

#1. It only takes one person to change your life -- you.

Ruth Casey

#2. It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

Dave Eggers

#3. It only takes one person to recognize the beautiful quality in another, buried beneath the burden of life, and soon it rises to the surface and becomes recognizable to the soul it belongs to.

Tara Dupuis

#4. It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.

Kirsten Arcadio

#5. It only takes one person to make a change ... Let it begin with you.

Joyce Thompson

#6. 98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.

David Duchovny

#7. It only takes one person to love, but it takes two to make a relationship work.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them ... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Sean Covey

#9. It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you, to make you feel changed. We should all help each other out and give love to everyone as much as possible.

Vanessa Hudgens

#10. Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Dan Farmer

#11. Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes it takes too long, and by the time I'm convinced, it's already too late. But what're you going to do? That's the kind of person I am.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Bonnie laughed, and I mean she threw her head back and cackled up into the rain.
They say it only takes a tablespoon of water to drown a person. I was hoping they were right. But Bonnie didn't drown, which was an amazing shame considering the size of her mouth.

Devon Monk

#13. The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.

MaryElizabeth Williams

#14. There is beauty within each one of us. It just takes the right person to spot it.

Faraaz Kazi

#15. That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

#16. I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and
water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but
it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's
lost the will to live.

Suzanne Collins

#17. I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them

Chigozie Obioma

#18. However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary democracy.

Kenneth Minogue

#19. I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

Harry Connick Jr.

#20. Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Pat Summitt

#21. The person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

William Osler

#22. I don't believe in love at first sight, neither do you. But I know ... that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to recognize that a person is capable of breaking your heart.

Kamila Shamsie

#23. Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

Rita Mae Brown

#24. There are good people who do good things, there are bad people who do bad things, but to get a good person to do a bad thing takes religion.

Bill Maher

#25. For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.

Paul Auster

#26. You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Confucius

#28. It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

Charles F. Glassman

#29. God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

R.C. Sproul

#30. The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.

Kim Fowley

#31. Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.

Kiera Cass

#32. It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

Byron Katie

#33. I wake up in the morning and I feel like I'm missing something. I know that there's something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is ... then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

Cecelia Ahern

#34. Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jackie Chan

#35. What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

Albert Hofmann

#36. To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.

Gia Russell

#37. One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.

April White

#38. A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have only one mother, Nana; he just happens to be my father, too.

Kat Attalla

#39. I feel emotion rush me - the intimacy, the awkwardness. I want to revolt against it, but I don't. It takes an awful toll on a person to fight down everything they're feeling.

Tarryn Fisher

#40. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least, or, while it takes two people to begin a relationship, it only takes one to end it.

Chris Vonada

#41. It takes two people to get together, but only one person to leave

S.E. Sever

#42. Laeth returned her smile with one as wicked, as he posed the favorite question of one of the combat instructors, "How many ways are there to kill a person with a knife?"
"It doesn't matter, it only takes one to do the job," returned Rialla.

Patricia Briggs

#43. After all, the way I see it, it takes only one person to murder you. It also takes only one person to fill your heart with the kind of joy that slaps you straight off your high horse. For the first time in a long time, I found myself believing in the possibility of both.

Alida Nugent

#44. It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

Kellee Stewart

#45. It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#46. One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

Alexander Hanson

#47. Anyone can obtain money, but it takes a certain type of person to obtain honor.

Idowu Koyenikan

#48. Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Barbara Kingsolver

#49. There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.

Tim McCarthy

#50. A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

David Brooks

#51. Sometimes all it takes is a kind person to take you by the hand, hold you tightly, and gently whisper, Everything's going to be all right.

Charles F. Glassman

#52. sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply don't want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body it's not love
it is rape

Rupi Kaur

#53. I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Yakov Smirnoff

#54. Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

William Wegman

#55. The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#56. It takes a truly dedicated person to see opportunities in every aspect
of life

Shannon Kaiser

#57. People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Gabrielle Zevin

#58. It's funny. I used to look up at the stars and feel so small and unimportant. But I've come to realize that the only thing that can ever make you feel alive and important is the one person who takes you for you.

Tillie Cole

#59. Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Pablo Casals

#60. I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.

Chris Robinson

#61. It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance

Takina Cupp

#62. Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

Carolyn Crane

#63. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

Gregg Braden

#64. We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned ... that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

Josh Gates

#65. Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Fulton J. Sheen

#66. Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!

Osho

#67. Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.

Robert Ferrigno

#68. It's a Monday morning, 9:13 a.m. on the dot, and the counter person, Mark J., takes exactly seventeen seconds to acknowledge my presence. He then offers to

Julia Kent

#69. The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

Joseph Alleine

#70. Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

James Altucher

#71. The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.

Ken Wilber

#72. A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Vera Nazarian

#73. All it takes is one good person to restore hope.

Pope Francis

#74. When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness.

Bauvard

#75. Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person's productivity

Sunday Adelaja

#76. Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

Allison Tolman

#77. The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie

#78. After all, it takes a lot of planning to marry the wrong person.

Andy Stanley

#79. It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

Gregg Popovich

#80. There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

Harlan Ellison

#81. If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.

Marina And The Diamonds

#82. It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#83. Because a person wants to know that there's a person in the world who would do something if they could." She takes a ragged breath. "Even if they can't.

Paul Acampora

#84. Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

Joan Bauer