Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever. — Edward Abbey
Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household… — Eva Cox
I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to… — Paul Hasluck
When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place… — Esther Hicks
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. — William J. Clinton
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men… — John F. Kennedy
What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what… — Diane von Furstenberg
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.… — Unknown Author
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. — Denis Waitley
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. — Norman O. Brown
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to… — Audre Lorde
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. — Arthur Keith
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception… — Peter Kropotkin
Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal. — Sam Hamill
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf
Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue. — Arthur Penn
It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money. — Frank Zappa
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some… — Anthony Storr
Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth… — Jim Rohn
Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really… — Paul Ryan
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey

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