Quotes About Person

The coward, then, is a despairing sort of person; for he fears everything," Aristotle wrote. "The brave man, on the other hand, has the opposite disposition; for confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

The most private essence of a person's fiber can only be measured by deed; not through written tests.

I was talking about pounding a nail in a board, it seems like there's a board there and all the nails are pounded in all over the place, you know, and every new person that comes to pound in a nail finds that there's one less space, you know. I hope we haven't got to the end of the space yet.

the gift was infinitely precious, because it was a person infinitely worthy, a person of infinite glory; and also because it was a person infinitely near and dear to God. The grace is great in proportion to the benefit we have given us in him: the benefit is doubly infinite, in that in him we have deliverance from an infinite, because an eternal, misery; and do also receive eternal joy and glory.

When Freud was asked what a normal person should be able to do well, he is reputed to have said, "Love and work.

Here the veterans grapple with the question of moral luck: Can any workings of bad luck produce cruel or evil actions in a good person ?

El aumento del número de parejas rotas en nuestros días es una manifestación de la crisis de la persona, que se encuentra perdida de sí misma, desorientada y a merced del hedonismo, el consumismo, la permisividad y el relativismo.

la educación es una tarea tan decisiva. Educar es convertir a alguien en persona; es acompañar con criterio; es predicar con el ejemplo. Educar es seducir por encantamiento y ejemplaridad con la alegría como telón de fondo[14].

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Grace is not merely an esoteric theological concept, but it is seen and defined most vehemently in a person.

the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath.

The state has an "annexationist" character tending toward centralization and the development of a Provider State. We must uphold the principle of subsidiarity. Action should always be taken by the smallest possible unit. starting with the person. What we now have is maximal government of the lowest quality; what we need is minimal government of the highest order.

The 'factious person' ... is the one who insists on such divisive debates even when their consequences become obvious. Such a person would rather be right than righteous, would rather maintain theoretical integrity than the health of the community. ,264

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

When Americans vote for a particular candidate, they vote for the candidate who reminds them of the kind of person they would have eaten lunch with.

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.

I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

My interest in this Senate seat really had nothing to do with President Obama's success. I've been convinced that the right person can win, regardless.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.