Personal Things Quotes

• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  David Hasselhoff

  Paint, Site, Stills

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• If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

  Jose Mourinho

  Revenge, Winning, Thinking

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• Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

  Joseph Barbera

  Creating, Growth, Fantasy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, People

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• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  Barbara Bush

  Blue, Mind, Waste

  TIME magazine, August 24, 1992.

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• Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

  S. E. Hinton

  Stars, Believe, Sunset

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.119, Penguin

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• 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

  Pain, Real

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.344, Vintage

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• People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Country, Jobs, Stars

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sexy, Jobs, Writing

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• The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Play, Reason Why

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• It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

  David Lynch

  Mean, Different, Uncomfortable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

  Mandy Moore

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

  Steven Morrissey

  Diaries, Launching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Teaching, Drawing

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• Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

  Kristen Stewart

  Running, People, Creative

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• I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Real, Divorce, Eye

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• The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Submission, Given

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• Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, Wrestling, Pride

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