The Personal Quotes

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

Do work you love, in which you can excel: The smaller the gap between who you are in your personal life and who you are at work, the happier you will be.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.