Persons Quotes

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Hurt, Track

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Friendship, Family

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• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Relationship, Happiness

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• Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Commitment

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.238, Discovery House

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• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2017

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Anger, Racism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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• If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person.

  Sadie Robertson

  Clothes, People, Body

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• Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Relationship, Cynical

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• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

  William Feather

  Happiness, Civilization, Inner Peace

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• Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

  Roy Orbison

  Friendship, Success, Soulmate

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• After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.

  Jim Croce

  Philosophy, Personality, Individuality

  Song: One Less Set Of Footsteps

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• Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Kings, Hero, Believe In Yourself

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• I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

  Jesse Ventura

  Truth, Lying, Personality

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Dec 22, 2014

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