Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. — Albert Bandura
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes… — William James
Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs… — Michael Chekhov
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along. — Aristophanes
Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted… — Homer
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years… — John F. Kennedy
I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how… — Thom Yorke
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same… — Sophie Kinsella
Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of… — Ruhollah Khomeini
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. — Leo Tolstoy
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He… — Willem de Kooning
There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would… — Kurt Cobain
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What… — David Brock
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that… — Harlan Ellison
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of… — Robert A. Heinlein
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. — Vladimir Kramnik
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature. — George Henry Lewes
Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned… — George Soros
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative. — Napoleon Hill
Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. — Jim Rohn
I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on… — Mark Geragos
I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I'm… — Malala Yousafzai
The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors… — Malala Yousafzai
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so,… — Karolina Kurkova

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