Personal Quotes
5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors
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I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to…
— Kinky Friedman
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
— Unknown Author
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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only…
— Nelson Algren
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Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't…
— Faye Wattleton
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It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone…
— Sarah Weddington
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
— Tony Robbins
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Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a…
— Max Lucado
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
— John Miller
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The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
— Joseph Campbell
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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
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It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events,…
— Ansel Adams
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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
— David Antin
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
— Edward Abbey
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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of…
— George Washington
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There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I,…
— Robert Adams
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A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the…
— Ted Lindsay
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I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel…
— Elliott Smith
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think…
— Lana Del Rey
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are…
— Vikram Seth
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What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit…
— Carl Jung
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We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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