When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
John Wooden

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Napoleon Hill

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin