Quotes with first-person

Quotes 201 till 220 of 2595.

  • Charles F. Kettering A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cam Newton A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Emily Brontë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sir Alec Guiness A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Shirley Maclaine A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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