Quotes with single-person

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1433.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Eric Hoffer To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Victor Hugo To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Thomas Traherne To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Brenda Song To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Bianca Kajlich Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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  • B. B. King Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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