Top 100 Person'ts Quotes
#1. Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.
Madeline Levine
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P.T. Barnum
#6. In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.
Christina Perri
#7. Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.
Ethan Hawke
#8. There is nothing in this world more powerful than the connection a person feels for another.
Rinda Elliott
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
Joel-Peter Witkin
#12. A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.
Anne Frank
#14. 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
#15. If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life - they have not loved at all.
Lang Leav
#16. 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
#17. Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.
Tina Majorino
#18. Of course, one person can be the world.
Ally Condie
#19. No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.
J. Michael Straczynski
#20. To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures
Hayao Miyazaki
#22. 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
#23. But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.
Haruki Murakami
#24. I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Leo Kottke
#25. I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.
Catherynne M Valente
#26. Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
Victoria Osteen
#27. 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
#28. Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
Veerappa Moily
#29. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Entrusting your dreams or aspirations to the wrong person could be a critical mistake, lest they mistreat or neglect them. We are not nearly as careful with our dreams as we should be.
Ramani Durvasula
#31. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.
Joe Penna
#32. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
Austin Grossman
#33. Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming
Debbie Ford
#34. And then they kiss.
Slowly, gently.
Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.
Lisa McMann
#35. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.
Erin Heatherton
#37. 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
#38. I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.
Robbie Amell
#39. It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,
Michael Warner
#40. 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
#41. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#42. A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#43. 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
#44. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.
Jesse Petersen
#45. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
Rachel Grady
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. True listening and understanding occurs only when the other person understands that you understand.
Henry Cloud
#51. If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.
Niecy Nash
#52. 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
#53. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
Tyler Cowen
#54. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
George Saunders
#55. I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#56. I guess at the end of the day it's better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, isn't it?
She was absolutely right about that.
Jay Crownover
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. A person's heart should be what she was judged by, rather than whose blood ran in her veins.
Melanie Dickerson
#60. I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
Natalie Maines
#61. 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
#62. An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
Eraldo Banovac
#63. The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
Confucius
#64. Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
Markus Zusak
#65. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#66. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
Hanif Kureishi
#67. 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
#68. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."
Madonna Ciccone
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Thank U God
for making me such a wonderful person
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Babaji
Petra Hermans
#74. Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy
Sunday Adelaja
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'
Raven-Symone
#78. Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.
John Paul Warren
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.
William Boyd
#82. I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.
Mac Danzig
#83. I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.
Melissa Joan Hart
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a poor person. He will probably buy something for eat or he will get out of his misery.
Deyth Banger
#87. I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.
Sharon Stone
#88. I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.
Lupita Nyong'o
#89. I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Mike Colter
#90. I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
Hannah Ware
#91. 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
#92. Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
Taylor Swift
#93. Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord's anointed
Sunday Adelaja
#94. Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.
Idries Shah
#95. 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
#96. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
Nora Ephron
#97. You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
Bill Hybels
#98. 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
#99. And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
Robert Mueller
#100. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman
