Persons Quotes

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Evil, Giving, Ordinary

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.308, Penguin

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• Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

  Franny Billingsley

  Water, Secret, Dams

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.133, A&C Black

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• Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Giving, Buckets, Needs

  Robert T. Kiyosaki (2016). “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, p.127, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Friendship, Family

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Relationship, Happiness

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• Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Hurt, Track

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• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Anger, Racism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person.

  Sadie Robertson

  Clothes, People, Body

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  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Commitment

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.238, Discovery House

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• Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Honesty

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

  Jesse Ventura

  Truth, Lying, Personality

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Dec 22, 2014

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• No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Relationship, Cynical

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Character, Learning

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• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Principles

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1016, e-artnow

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