Personal Quotes

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.
Emmy Rossum

End, Keep, Everyone

Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman

Nothing, Qualities, Endures

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley

Success, Important, Ingredient

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Ambrose Bierce

Either, Promise, Side

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Duty, Collective

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
Richard Dawkins

Feeling, Evolution, Atheism

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton

Real, Words, Confused

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer

Pain, Help, Others

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.
Anatole France

Acceptance, Against, High

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold

God, Daily, Die

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot

Perhaps, Liking, Agreement

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking

Good, Women, Men

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nature, Himself, Individual

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey

Home, Positive, Strength

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Chuck Palahniuk

Great, Freedom, American

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

Liking, Parties, Entertain

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Assume, Boasting, Egotism

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

Through, Books, Expect

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
Robert H. Schuller

Family, Time, Church

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Mandy Patinkin

Life, Blessed, Career

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge

Same, Rights, Property

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
Jim Carrey

Almost, Hygiene, Package

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
Madeleine Albright

Great, Woman, Ways

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett

Age, Power, Wisdom

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Lady Gaga

Life, Trust, Family

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

Beautiful, Liberty, Away

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Level, Failures, Tremendous

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Social, Ourselves

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life, Become, Prayer

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
Gary Neville

Life, Strong, Mistakes

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