Personal Quotes - page 3

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. (William Howard Taft)
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. View quote
Lana Del Rey
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all. View quote
Lana Del Rey
Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms. View quote
Raymond Williams
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. View quote
Anatole France
When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings - not when you love either. View quote
Stig Dagerman
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. View quote
Clarence Darrow
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. View quote
Confucius
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. View quote
Dan Quayle
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. (John Stuart Mill)
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. View quote
Brian Tracy
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana
Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else. View quote
Richard Koch
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. View quote
Robin Williams
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. View quote
Milan Kundera
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. View quote
Albert Einstein
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. (Manuel Puig)
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. View quote
Manuel Puig
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. View quote
Manuel Puig
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult. View quote
Mario Puzo
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. View quote
Mark Strand