I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
Lewis Mumford

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Robert H. Schuller

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Spurgeon

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce