Personal Competences Quotes

#1. When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.
'You're alive!' Frank marveled.
Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'
'You did what?' Hazel asked.

Rick Riordan

#2. Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge.
Amen.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.

Rossana Condoleo

#4. Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Phyllis McGinley

#5. There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

Paddy Ashdown

#6. Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

Mark Sanford

#7. The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Fred Thompson

#8. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

#9. I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

Angelina Jolie

#10. I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Leon Jaworski

#11. In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI