Great Person Quotes - Page 2

• I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

  Cristie Kerr

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

  Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

  Age, Glory, Disappear

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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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• Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Order, Needs, Well Being

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Heart, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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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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• 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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• 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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• Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

  Adam Clarke

  Kings, Sea, Islands

  Adam Clarke (2013). “Commentary on the New Testament”, p.38, Ravenio Books

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• Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

  Henry Rollins

  Interesting, Mind, Opinion

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Persons

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• Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

  Diego Maradona

  Player, Argentina, Duos

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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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• 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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• Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

  Jason Alexander

  Stars, Looks, Television

  "THE CRAFTSMAN - For JASON ALEXANDER, life after Seinfeld is a lot like before: It's about the work". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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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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• All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Blessed, Greatness, Wind

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