Persons Quotes - Page 40

• There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

  David McCullough

  Inspirational, Congratulations

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• Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

  June Jordan

  Success, Determination, Laughter

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Determination, Real, Character

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• The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

  Geshe Gyeltsen

  Determination, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Life, Happy, Goodbye

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. Regardless of who you are or what you do, if you are looking for the best way to reap the most reward in all areas of life, you should look for the good in every person and in every situation and adopt the golden rule as a way of life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, May, Able

  Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Joseph Carrington Cabell (1856). “Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell”, p.389

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• I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Fathers Day, Strong

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• Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Science, Intelligent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm, thus considerable in amount, must be necessarily more than merely considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Men, Intelligent

  "The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness".

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• The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

  Teresa de la Parra

  Acceptance, Interesting, Tolerance

  Teresa de la Parra (1959). “Mama Blanca's Souvenirs”

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• You are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of the customer. Your job is to make the person leave happy.

  John E. Pepper, Jr.

  Jobs, Educational, Worry

  "John Pepper of Boloco: Acting On The Customer’s Voice". Interview with Brent Leary, smallbiztrends.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Giving, Attention

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• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Paulo Freire (1998). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Mind, Too Late

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.99, BookBaby

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• You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

  Claire Danes

  Autism, Brave, Misunderstood

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• Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational Life, Perception, Belief

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• The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

  Edwin Land

  Inspirational Life, Vision, Important

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• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  Patrick Rafter

  Tennis, Motivational Tennis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

  Al Capone

  Kindness, Badass, Bad Ass

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• One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Football, Stars

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• Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Foolish, Young

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