Quotes about person
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“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Personality

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad,. Northern women development. [Nigeria]. p, 351. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

Happy, Idea, Personality, Happiness

“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Personality

“I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Personality

“The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”

Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist

Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Love, Stupidity, Personality

“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990), p. 3; https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/550046337547665409

Courageous, Fate, Personality

“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”

Bob Hope (1903–2003) American comedian, actor, singer and dancer

Personality

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Heart of the Matter

Life, Marriage, Way, Thinking

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Way, Personality

“I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers

Source: Flappers and Philosophers

Hate, Girl, Personality

“Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Mourns

Hostility, Personality

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”

Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

Fools, Personality

“Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Love, Personality

“Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.”

Marc Maron (1963) Comedian

Source: Attempting Normal

Time, Personality

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

Life, Way, Suicide, Personality

“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Sense, Heart, Personality

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Depressing, Understanding, Hurt, Personality

“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

Idries Shah book Caravan of Dreams

Source: Caravan of Dreams

Thinking, Personality

“There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.”

Margaret Atwood book Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Feeling, Affliction, Personality

“Life with another person is always difficult.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

Life, Personality

“The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Beauty, Heart, Personality

“If I stay, they'll kill me… If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Personality, Dead

“Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Way, Fight, Personality

“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”

Greg Iles book The Footprints of God

Source: The Footprints of God

World, Personality

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”

Katharine Graham (1917–2001) American publisher

Personality, Anger

“You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Life, Pain, Personality

“It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

World, Personality

“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.”

Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist

Time, Personality

“It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 17

Parting, Personality

“Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Thinking, Evil, Personality

“Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

Way, Personality

“I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Personality

“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty… It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

Life, Sadness, Personality, Madness

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Effort, Personality, Perfection

“.. its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Viola in Reel Life

Shoe, Personality

“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”

Elise Broach Masterpiece

Source: Masterpiece

Birthday, Personality

“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Suicide, Personality

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Thinking, Personality

“A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Something Wonderful

Lie, Soul, Intelligence, Personality

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”

Raymond E. Feist book Rise of a Merchant Prince

Source: Rise of a Merchant Prince

Personality

“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948) American writer

Love, Life, Personality, Forgetting

“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Personality

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Personality, Dead

“You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Sweet Trouble

People, Personality

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: The World As I See It

Love, Justice, Star, Knowledge

“Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: You Suck

Personality

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Truth, Thinking, Change, Personality

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

People, Passion, Personality

“But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.”

Perry Moore (1971–2011) Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-winning LGBTQ young adult novel Hero

Change, Personality

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Understanding, Personality

“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Personality

“As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

People, Suffering, Personality

“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Personality

“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

Love, Courage, Personality

“But you can love more than just one person, can't you?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love, Personality

“God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender

God, Dreams, Past, Christ

“My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

Personality

“Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Effort, Personality

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.

In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hope, Personality, Dead

“In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh… ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue? ]”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

God, Personality, Dead

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Personality

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

Sad, Depressing, Sadness, Feeling

“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Fear, Hope, Time, Personality

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Love, Hate, Personality

“The only person I know, is the person I want to be”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Personality

“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Help, Personality

“[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Evil, Personality

“Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.”

Michael Crichton book State of Fear

Source: State of Fear

Personality

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Personality

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Attributed

Personality

“Why would John bother using windows or doors like a normal person? Why would he bother to say hello? Just. Crunch. Bye.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Personality

“We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Chance, Time, Personality

“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Thinking, Personality

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Beauty, Feeling, Personality, Night

“You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love, Personality

“A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: Waiting and Dating

Personality

“Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Books, Memory, Parting, Personality

“Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”

Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Source: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Guy, Chance, Personality

“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Future, Personality

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Life, Personality

“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”

Anthony Burgess book The Wanting Seed

Source: The Wanting Seed

Disappointment, Personality

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

Effort, Personality, Happiness

“There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Personality