Great Person Quotes - Page 3

• Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well.

  Tamara Keith

  Fun, Clinton, Wells

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

  Jerry West

  Games, Personality, Ifs

  Source: alanpaul.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

  Mark Gatiss

  Light, Laughing, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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 already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Done, Enough, Drivers

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Should Have, Fifty

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• A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Risk, Flatterer

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book IV, Chapter 7, 1735.

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• Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Air, Should

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• Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Mother, Heart

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.493, Catholic Way Publishing

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• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Simple, Keys

  "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything". Book by Steven Levy, www.businessinsider.com. June 1, 2000.

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• Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

  Janet Flanner

  Art, Genius, Maternity

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• The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

  Georg Brandes

  Personality, Three, Tools

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.11, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

  Halle Berry

  Believe, Thinking, Careers

  "Halle, Them's the Breaks". The Advertiser, April 01, 200.

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• Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities, of men like Goethe ... who seem to forge their own destinies, who seem to move unhampered by those burdens of existence which keep most men from rising above the vicissitudes of their daily toil.

  John Carroll

  Moving, Destiny, Men

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.76, Taylor & Francis

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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, Two

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• Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Names, Government

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Risk, Facts

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• When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Drunk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.

  Trae tha Truth

  Soldier, Stories, Speak

  "Interview: Trae Tha Truth On Being Banned From Radio One & His Friendship With Lupe Fiasco". Interview with Maurice Bobb, www.complex.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Intellectual, Democracy

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