Persons Quotes - Page 28

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room."

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

You know what the average person is? Average.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.