Persons Quotes - Page 34

• Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Women, Believe

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 09, 2015

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• A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Sweet, Divorce, Character

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  Chris Matthews

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

  Jack Kemp

  Success, Sports, Team

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• I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Running, Jobs

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Long

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• Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Friend, Parent

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• Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.

  Michael Josephson

  Strong, Character, Honor

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• A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Differences, Trying

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• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  Plutarch

  Real, Character, Men

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• It's actually easier to truly become a person of good character than to persuade others we are what we are not.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Character, Easier

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• Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and frustration; to give more than is asked for or required; to size things up and make independent decisions; to work under authority and to cooperate with others; to defer to time, other persons, and to circumstances.

  Edward Adam Strecker

  Jobs, Struggle, Character

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• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Personality, Desire

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• It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Person, Easier

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• A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Commitment, Principles

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• I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

  Charles Mingus

  Strong, Struggle, Feelings

  "Setting the Tempo: Fifty Years of Great Jazz Liner Notes". Book by Tom Piazza, 1996.

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• Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Acceptance, Order

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• It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

  Henri Bergson

  Science, Past, Survival

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.525, OUP Oxford

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• The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

  George Santayana

  Science, Progress, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.106, Рипол Классик

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• God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Eight, Ideas

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• Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Home, Knowing

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Smell, Special

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