Person Quotes

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Lazy, Useful

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony

Sometimes, Guilty, Makes

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

Life, Quality, Commitment

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy

Between, Realize, House

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

Listen, Pessimist, Optimists

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Trying, Maybe, Prove

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius

Change, Sun, Everyone

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

Black, Wish, Realize

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Black, Between

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

Character, Mean, Sense

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young, Afraid, Once

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya

Stupid, Books, Mirror

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Pet, Gossip, Real

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

Love, Drunk, While

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion, Meet, Optical

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg

Single, Different, Same

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, After, Effort

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson

Turn, Eye, Hunting

A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah Winfrey

Mother, Friend, She

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

Hypocrite, Makes, Value

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Character

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Else, Between

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.
Michael Jordan

Work, Conscious, Type

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley

Smile, Others, Light

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
Eminem

Mistakes, Learn, Show

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
David Brenner

Children, Won, Eat

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Great, Wanted, Once

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

Failure, Remember, Event

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

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