Quotes with person

Quotes 781 till 800 of 1119.

  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Confucius The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Anne Frank The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Richard P. Feynman The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Ken Blanchard The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Robert Hayden The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Seneca The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Washington The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Francis Bacon The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The greater person is one of courtesy.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • J. Martin Kohe The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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  • Sheldon Kopp The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Adam Osborne The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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