Persons Quotes - Page 38

• A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Humility, Puff, Use

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• It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humility, Understanding, Honor

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• Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Humility, Acceptance

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• I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Causes, This Society

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• The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicidal, People, Effort

  The Defendant introduction (1901)

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• From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Criminals, Problem

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• Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Attitude, Flower, Unique

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• Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Beautiful, Brother, Attitude

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• The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Important, Size

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.62, Thomas Nelson

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• There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Differences, World

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

  Naomi Watts

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

  Keri Russell

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

  James A. Baldwin

  Identity, Use, Way

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• I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

  David Byrne

  Life, Change, Country

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• Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.

  Bob Dole

  Data, Identity, Immigration

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• I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Issues, Feelings

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• We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.

  Janet Reno

  Effort, Trying, Principles

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• So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Heart, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.

  Amy Hastings

  Athlete, Unique, Boston

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• You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Athlete, Want

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• If you want to be like someone, there's nothing stopping you from modeling yourself after someone else. You don't have to BE them - that's not your job in life. Your job in life is not to be someone else. You just want to be as good at being you as that person is at being them.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Jobs, Stopping

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• As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

  Ada Leverson

  Betrayal, Two, Betrayed

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love's Shadow”, p.265, tredition

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• The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility and the striving towards God are the fundamental virtues of a Christian.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Christian, Humility, Weakness

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• O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Humility, Soul, Suffering

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• If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Way, Just One

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “Someone Like You”, p.180, Hachette UK

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