Quotes about Person
We may have suffered a lot because of our attachment to those things, but we don't have the courage to release them; it doesn't feel safe to do so. But it may be that we continue to suffer because of our attachment to those things. It may be a person, a material object, or a position in society, anything. We think that without that person or thing we will not be safe, and that is why we're caught by it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Individual acts don't make a person toxic; toxic describes someone who feels comfortable in those acts and energized by those acts and who makes those acts the common approach to their relationships.
— Gary Thomas
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
— Charles Stanley
There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.
— Rick Warren
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
— Richard Foster
Salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
But borrowing strength builds weakness. It builds weakness in the borrower because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done. It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce
— Stephen Covey
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
— Albert Einstein
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
— Pope John Paul II
The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often in the ordinariness of our lives. The new life takes place in the place and person of our present. It is not a means by which God solves problems. God creates new life. He is not a problem solver but a person creator.
— Eugene Peterson
I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.
— Tim Tebow