Person Quotes - page 2

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. (Marilyn Monroe)
A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Friedrich Schlegel
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
Joseph Addison
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
Dale Carnegie
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Bill Gates
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Harriet Tubman
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. (André Malraux)
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
André Maurois
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde