Quotes with first-person

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  • Ayn Rand Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Denis Waitley Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Plautus To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Burt Rutan To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Herbert A. Otto To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
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  • Mark Twain To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • William Shakespeare To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Caroline Lawrence To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Charles J. Givens To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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