Quotes with first-person

Quotes 2501 till 2520 of 2595.

  • Edgar A. Guest You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
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  • C. S. Lewis You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brian Tracy You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Plato You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • A. Waugh You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
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  • Robert H. Schuller You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Charles E. Popplestone You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • Buddha You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Audrey Hepburn You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Leo Aikman You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
    Leo Aikman
    American journalist (1908 - 1978)
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  • Barbara de Angelis You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You can't put a great soul into a commomplace person. Commonplace persons have commonplace souls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Wayne Dyer You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Audre Lorde You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Mark Victor Hansen You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
    Mark Victor Hansen
    American motivational speaker and author (1948 - )
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  • Ben Carson You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Sher You don't have to get it right the first time.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Jean Kerr You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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