Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call… — Amy Carmichael
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it… — Sydney J. Harris
Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause.… — Sydney J. Harris
Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to… — Wallace D. Wattles
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But… — Dalai Lama
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well,… — Ajahn Chah
Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. — Peg Kehret
Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The… — Diane Chamberlain
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous… — Jason Epstein
The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution. — Michael Franti
Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime...… — Harry Hopkins
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such… — Randy Alcorn
I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do it for personal… — Timothy McVeigh
So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be… — Robyn
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love… — Archibald Alexander
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep… — William Barrett
One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you. — Guy Finley
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. — Park Geun-hye
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at… — Richard Stallman
I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom… — Richard Stallman
Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for a saner future.… — Hazel Henderson
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no… — Jonathan Kozol
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant, — Philippe Starck
I'm a vegetarian, well I'm not hardcore because I eat meat, but only because I like the taste, and I hate vegetables on a personal… — Dylan Moran
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime:… — Rod Paige

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