Inspirational Persons Quotes & Sayings

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. — Rollo May

When two persons are together, two of them must not whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him — Anonymous

God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites. — Tommy Tenney

If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm. — John O'Donohue

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?" — Marianne Williamson

A person without regrets is a nincompoop. — Mia Farrow

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are. — Andrew Harvey

If we take a survey of the greatest actions ... in the world ... we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position. — John Adams

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same. — Dalai Lama

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be. — Abraham H. Maslow

A persons limitations are only measured by their drive to succeed — Brian A. Leslie

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements. — George Washington

Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us. — Abdul Kalam

There are persons who seem to overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the number of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with encouragement and opportunity, mike make great contributions. — Mary Narnett Gilson

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. — Nathaniel Branden

Through social media, missing persons are found; sick persons are given chances to live a healthy life. I say, that is the modern bayanihan movement. — Kcat Yarza

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are. — Terry Brooks

The World needs Educated Persons not the Literate Ones — Yarro Rai

God never occurs to you in person but always in action. — Mahatma Gandhi

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Too many persons get totally lost in the gifts that God has given us. Their wild enthusiasm for heavenly things often blinds them to the reality of God Himself. All the gifts were designed only to draw us closer to God. Frequently, they become another impenetrable barrier to any kind of a meaningful relationship with Him. — L.F.Linnenkamp

A persons soul reflects more than just their actions. It reflects their thoughts and feelings, their emotions and desires. It reflected all of who you are. — Jamie Canosa

Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten. — Archibald Marwizi

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others. — Carl Rogers

Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one node or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about — Robert M. Pirsig

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say. — Katherine Paterson

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you. — David McCullough

Self belief is directly proportional to confidence i.e more the self belief more is the confidence and less of it will lessen the confidence. Success gets attracted to persons with high self belief. — Sandeep Kakkar

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools. — Walter Winchell

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person. — Denis Waitley

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. — Thomas Carlyle

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today — Francis Of Assisi

My teacher's mind and my interest in youth has brought me to some renewed conclusions, and I pass them on earnestly to mature persons who are given to assisting young people off the trail. The dictionary has a word for them: iconoclast. It is defined as, "one who attacks cherished beliefs as shames." What if the cherished beliefs that are attacked along the way are true? What if they are the very beliefs that make these boys and girls worthwhile, promising people they are? What if the foundations of their faith are effectively shaken at this crucial period, and they dangle, with no substantial footings to stand on? — Marion D. Hanks

Learning is a good thing, but more often it leads to mistakes. It is like the admonition of the priest Konan. It is worthwhile just looking at the deeds of accomplished persons for the purpose of knowing our own insufficiencies. But often this does not happen. For the most part, we admire our own opinions and become fond of arguing. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

History is change happening one person at a time. — Matt Damon

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. — John Henry Newman

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it. — Gautama Buddha

You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem — Renae A. Sauter