Private Quotes
2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors
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Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living life in separate…
— Russell M. Nelson
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only…
— Amby Burfoot
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To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
— Bertrand Russell
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The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
— Tony Robbins
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.
— Mae West
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If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry…
— Unknown Author
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I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere…
— Susanna Wesley
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense…
— Raymond Chandler
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In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those…
— Billie Holiday
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Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.
— Joseph Campbell
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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm…
— Maya Angelou
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[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all…
— Albert Einstein
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The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
— Al-Shafi‘i
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I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media…
— Eric Dickerson
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Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You…
— Steve Pavlina
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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
— Michael Oxley
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