Definition of Personal

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Personal

Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.

Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.

Done in person; without the intervention of another.

Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

A movable; a chattel.

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Personal Quotations

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mohandas Gandhi

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Confucius

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Personal Translations

personal in Afrikaans is persoonlik, eie
personal in Danish is egen, personlig
personal in Dutch is persoonlijk
personal in Finnish is oma
personal in French is personnel, propre
personal in Italian is personalmente
personal in Spanish is personal, propio
personal in Swedish is enskild, personlig

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