Personal Quotes

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.

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

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.