Quotes About Personal

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

writing - like any art - is so damned personal that there really isn't a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it works, then excellent. But, if it doesn't, you have to realize that perhaps nothing is wrong with you. You don't jive with the advice.

Change comes from within, not from outside.

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.

You can get there by yourself, but that is the hard way. Our personal goals all lead to the same end. There is only one truth. But why deny the thousands of years of experience found in religion? There is real wisdom available from so many years of seeking and trial and error.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

My African leaders have a dilemma of clinging too much on power for their own personal gains.

On an individual level, we have nothing in common except to put our self-interest before anything else.

The matter of heart is more personal than accepting the opinions of others.

There is a touch of selfishness in everyone. Everyone wants only the best for themselves, in this world or in the hereafter.

Today, the majority of preachers compete to write more personal books, rather than trying to compete to master the holy scriptures first.

You have been taught not to take anything seriously in life. In other words, pay no attention. Now I tell you to take everything seriously, but nothing personal.

No matter what type of leader you are or how widespread your influence, you face personal temptations, challenges, and stresses. And only a foundation of character will sustain you and your leadership.

our personal behavior often has consequences for others.

The love of work is the secret to personal progress, productivity, and fulfillment because work encourages the release of potential, and potential is the abundance of talents, abilities, and capabilities given to every person.

and I never allowed another human being to touch me in intimacy again.

spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.

It is individualism and collectivism that cancel each other out; properly understood, the corporate and the personal reinforce one another.4

sets us free in our personal lives from the need to worship or trust idols, and in our public lives from the pressure to serve the needs of an idolatrous state.

My effort is completely personal. Every time I make a film, I find myself in debt and I spend years trying to recover. I pursue this personal effort just to make it clear that there is another way to see things.

Change the world but keep bits of it the way I like it for myself — who wouldn't make the world over if it were to be as easy as that.

Look," she said, making the conscious decision to wrench herself back before her frustrated wolf took control and she found herself feasting on male lips currently thin with anger, "it's nothing personal. I'm generally a bitch.

Things we build ourselves, they matter.