Top 100 Quotes About A Person
#1. Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold ... But a person's job tells you nothing about a person's character or value.
Billy Graham
#2. You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.
Wayne Dyer
#3. That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself?
Don DeLillo
#4. The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.
Gary Cole
#7. When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.
Jamel Shabazz
#8. It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.
Guy Kawasaki
#9. There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.
Hillary DePiano
#10. I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
Penelope Cruz
#11. What's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
Robert Dallek
#12. Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.
Sam Harris
#14. When the anointing of God is upon a person, it changes that individual from being a little ordinary person into being a giant.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#16. Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character. ========== Naked Empire (Goodkind, Terry)
Anonymous
#17. there is a natural propriety in the companionship: always to be noted in confidence between a child and a person who has any merit of reality and genuineness: which is admirably pleasant.
Charles Dickens
#18. A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.
Bette Greene
#20. There isn't a person on earth who is not beautiful while he or she is smiling and experiencing unadulterated joy!
Kristine Carlson
#21. For a person of wrong mental attitude the whole world is wrong and for a person of right mental attitude the same world is a beautiful world.
Deepak Burfiwala
#22. And she finds it difficult to believe - that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.
Margaret Atwood
#23. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
Justin Bieber
#24. If the inspirational calendar had been a person, Gus would have punched it in the face.
T.J. Klune
#25. Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.
Liesl Shurtliff
#26. The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.
Laozi
#27. A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Seneca.
#28. Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.
Bernie Sanders
#29. A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.
Paris Reidhead
#30. Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.
Gautama Buddha
#31. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#32. The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.
Ravi Zacharias
#33. [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
Christine De Pizan
#34. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Arthur C. Brooks
#35. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.
Jeff Olson
#36. If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.
Christina Engela
#37. If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
Jim Rohn
#38. For a person to make a difference in the world, he must be different than the world.
Orrin Woodward
#39. The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
Andy Goldsworthy
#40. Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
Adam Johnson
#42. To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person's not a little impulsive, they don't have a pulse.
Jarod Kintz
#43. If I have to choose between a person who has everything but loyalty and another who has nothing but loyalty, I go for the latter. Go loyal!
Assegid Habtewold
#44. It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell.
David Foster Wallace
#45. This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#46. I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated.
Jim Butcher
#47. As if a person's greatness need never be pointed out, for it is there, anyway, in the silent being.
Morrissey
#48. [Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#49. Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.
Steven Erikson
#50. She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.
Haruki Murakami
#51. Blessings come into the areas of a person's life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
Ambrose Bierce
#53. Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.
Gautama Buddha
#54. I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
Yasmin Paige
#55. Then she was seated, in a chair made for sitting, and sit in it she did, like a person seated in a chair made for sitting.
Rachel Kelso
#56. [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.
Pharoah Sanders
#57. You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.
Takashi Miike
#58. If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
Bryan Cranston
#59. A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#60. If a person is said to have five senses, then whoever has common sense has six.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.
Stephen Lovegrove
#62. When a person gives you a book to read, he's asking you to look into his soul.
Suzanne Morrison
#63. Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance.
Thomas S. Monson
#64. To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.
Anuj
#65. You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#67. Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.
Rex Harrison
#68. She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no trouble giving something trifling
Jennifer DuBois
#69. The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
Guy Kawasaki
#70. Now I was only confused as to why a person would want to kiss anyone but Callum. When he lifted his head from mine I
Amy Tintera
#71. Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.
Peter Drucker
#72. It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#73. A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.
Orrin Woodward
#74. A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#75. The best way to determine a person's character is to judge them when their world is falling apart.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.
Scott Cohen
#77. Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.
Paul Ryan
#78. The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
Lee R. Raymond
#79. Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it.
Sarah Dessen
#80. Too much knowledge isn't good for a person. I know that now.
Stephen King
#81. My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.
Leah Remini
#82. You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives
Paulo Coelho
#83. It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone
#84. Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.
John C. Maxwell
#85. You are expressing your own limits in not allowing yourself to be taken for granted. If you are truly feeling like a martyr, or a person who has suffered a lot and deserves pity, make sure that you deal with that feeling first so that you are letting the child know about his behavior without guilt.
Henry Cloud
#86. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
#87. A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
Erwin McManus
#88. I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.
Jeff Bingaman
#89. I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
Doris Lessing
#90. If something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities
Tite Kubo
#91. Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.
Deb Caletti
#92. I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett
#93. If I'm playing a fat person, then I actually eat a lot of cakes and as much as I can. If I'm playing a person in shape, then I'll increase my intensity of boxing training. It's really dependent. It kind of allows me to take whatever specific character I want.
Guy Burnet
#94. Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#95. Until a person, man or woman, has enjoyed this treasure bathed in the mutual bliss of minds linked as closely as bodies, that person is still as virginal and alone as if he has never copulated.
Robert A. Heinlein
#96. Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?
Laura Lee Guhrke
#97. Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?
Karen Marie Moning
#98. To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#99. Researchers have proved that the more creative a person is, the more visually they think. The creative develop ways to block out verbal thoughts. They visualise ideas. They form mental pictures of their subject or problem. This enables them to see their idea.
Rod Judkins
#100. As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
Rob Lowe
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