Top 100 Person Is Quotes

#1. Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

Os Guinness

#2. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

#3. Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

Sunday Adelaja

#4. 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

#5. Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

Katie Aselton

#6. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

Ellen Malcolm

#7. 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

#8. A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

Daisaku Ikeda

#9. Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Markus Zusak

#10. The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Confucius

#11. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Becky G

#12. Eyes are very appealing to me. I also like somebody who is interested in a career for themselves and can treat me like a normal person.

Brian Littrell

#13. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

George Saunders

#15. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

Anthony De Mello

#16. I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

Akio Morita

#17. 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

#18. Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Idries Shah

#19. 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

#20. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

Harper Lee

#21. Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#22. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

#23. The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.

Gracia Hunter

#24. Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.

John Paul Warren

#25. I Love You

and your perfect ask

'Would you scratch my back?' is enough

to stretch out hands because folk who love

happily scratch backs where a person can't reach

John Lavan

#26. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.

Art Hochberg

#27. I am not always certain that it is I who am the better person, ma petite, but together we are the better person.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#28. 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

#29. A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

Anne Frank

#30. Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#31. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.

Alan Dean Foster

#32. There is nothing in this world more powerful than the connection a person feels for another.

Rinda Elliott

#33. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

P.T. Barnum

#34. I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

Jason Mraz

#35. 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

#36. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.

Julie Murphy

#37. It is time for us to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term "person of faith" as a compliment.

Jerry A. Coyne

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. It is said that most people judge themselves too harshly. I disagree. If they judged themselves harshly enough, they would come to the conclusion that they're the last person on Earth to be judging anyone.

Silvia Hartmann

#41. Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Henry Rollins

#42. A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#43. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Patricia Sampson

#44. Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

David Foster Wallace

#45. It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,

Michael Warner

#46. A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly

Sunday Adelaja

#47. Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

Erin Heatherton

#48. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

Joe Penna

#50. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Paulo Coelho

#51. Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Veerappa Moily

#52. World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

Herbie Hancock

#53. I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Sebastiao Salgado

#54. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#55. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.

David Levithan

#57. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

#58. If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

Derek R. Audette

#59. A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

#60. The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.

Reid Hoffman

#61. Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.

David Weigel

#62. Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Zig Ziglar

#63. Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

Bernard Madoff

#64. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Stephanie Perkins

#65. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.

Edward Hirsch

#66. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#67. The coat-check line is long enough to fall in love with the person behind you.

Simon Van Booy

#68. Forgiveness is so powerful. You give a person so much power over you when you are unable to let go and simply forgive.

B.M. Hardin

#69. 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

#70. Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

Lee Roberson

#71. The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Martin Luther

#72. The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

Christian Metz

#73. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

James Hollis

#74. This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother
was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

Meg Cabot

#75. People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers).

Raniero Cantalamessa

#76. A scientist said, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

Halford Luccock

#77. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.

Rumi

#78. 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

#79. Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.

Jen Hatmaker

#80. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

Deepak Chopra

#81. Our job isn't to turn our bulb down to make the person next to us more comfortable. Our job is to turn our bulb up and give the next person permission to do the same. Warren did that.

Crystal Zevon

#82. 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

#83. No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is 'vyavasthit' [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don't tell anyone, 'you did wrong'. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it.

Dada Bhagwan

#84. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

#85. I wish there was a manual on how to come out and what a young gay person is supposed to do. Like,

Sara Farizan

#86. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#87. Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.

Britney Spears

#88. When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But whether you go for a movie with someone or a meal or a drive, it is assumed that you are dating that person.

Shahid Kapoor

#89. 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

#90. There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.

Richard Branson

#91. But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself - his very life - has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes.

Hanya Yanagihara

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. Every person is bound to make the first impression with the help of words

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#95. Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.

Bokar Rinpoche

#96. Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#97. If a person obeys because he has no choice in the matter and would rebel if he had the opportunity, there is nothing in his obedience.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#98. What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

Medardo Rosso

#99. The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He's the best boss I ever had because he's the most talented boss I ever had.

Steven Spielberg

#100. What is the acceptable length of time before you change your life to be with the person you love? A day was all I needed.

Kerry Heavens

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