Great Person Quotes - Page 2

• One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  Michael Ealy

  Husband, Father, Believe

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

  Michael Ealy

  The End Of The Day, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health, I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.

  Adam Richman

  Giving, Feelings, Triumph

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My proudest accomplishment is my daughter Ella. Because she is a great person, great personality. She not really my accomplishment, she is her own, but I had something to do with it.

  Richard Norris

  Daughter, Accomplishment, Personality

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Effort, Done

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• As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

  Priscilla Presley

  Humor, Caring, Parent

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• Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Men, Judging

  John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.130

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• Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Courtesy, Manners, Witchery

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• I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Proud, Hot, Noses

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• If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Girl, Hard Work

  "Dear diary: More Chuck, less gimmicks" by Bill Simmons, www.espn.com.

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• I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  Michael Ealy

  Husband, Father, Believe

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• [On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

  Randall Wallace

  Heart, Persons, Converses

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• I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Persons

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• When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

  Serena Williams

  Personality, Scary, Cameras

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• It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Hypocrisy, Quality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.421

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• Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.

  Chip Ingram

  Inspirational, Religious, Love Is

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• 50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Law, Together

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• The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Personal Qualities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

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• The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  God, Men, Organization

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• I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

  James Hird

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Beautiful, Jobs, The End Of The Day

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• Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

  Yasmin Paige

  Would Be, Great Friend, Ask Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

  Victor Ponta

  Risk, Passionate, Communist

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• Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

  Akeem Ayers

  Teacher, Kings, Luther

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