A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A person who looks behind and run on the track will never win the race”
“A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.”
“A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.”
“A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.”
“A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.”
“A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.”
“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”
“A person who makes his own decisions,” he says. “The walk was long. Gave me time to think about what matters.”
Source: A Flicker in the Clarity
“A person who makes something so beautiful out of something which was once so ugly, is usually a very good person in their heart, if not on the surface.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“A person who offers a loose handshake, on the other hand (pun intended), may be interpreted as being uninterested, lacking confidence and self-esteem, weak, or being wishy-washy. Whether too strong or too weak, a bad handshake can set you back and close down a potentially rewarding relationship before it ever gets started.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“A person who practices Zen meditation does not have to rely on beliefs in hell, nirvana, rebirth, or causality; they have only to rely on the reality of their body, their psychology, biology, and their own past experiences or the instructions of Zen masters who have preceded them.”
Source: Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire
“A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.”
“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”
“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.”
Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW
“A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.”
Source: The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear
“A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.”
Source: The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You
“A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.”
“A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves”
“A person who’s complete by themself doesn’t get bored or lonely. Loneliness and boredom are symptoms of not having put in the work to become complete with oneself. Any state of needing something outside yourself is a correlation to the lack of being connected to wholeness, which allows contentment.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.”
Source: The Subject Was Roses
“A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.”
“A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?”
Source: The mask of Dimitrios
“A person who seeks an enlightened existence must awaken to realize universal truths.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person who seeks power usually goes into other dimensional planes to find it. Then they bring that power back into this world and they use it to enhance their life.”
“A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.”
Source: The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource
“A person who sees the good in things has good thoughts. And he who has good thoughts receives pleasure from life.”
“A person who sets goals is a hopeful person, whereas a person whom fails to achieve their goals might despair. Why do both hope and despair fill my inner world? Who cannot despair when inducted into a world filled with cruelty? Who cannot despair when serving as the serf in a seigneur’s regime that bestows legal and economic power, financial rewards, social status, and related societal prizes upon feudal lords who exhibit the ravenous instinct for power and accumulation of wealth? Who cannot despair when stranded alone with their personal thoughts, unable to imagine a better earthly life, and flooded with uncertainty of a redemptive afterlife? Why would not any person despair his or her failure to etch a mindset that serves to alleviate their present-day suffering?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)”
Source: The Secret
“A person who sets with the sunset and rises with the sunrise is a weak person because a strong person stands tall regardless of the circumstances, does not give up and kneel when darkness comes, does not throw in the towel when conditions turn against him, does not hide in a mouse hole when the sun goes down!”
“A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.”
“A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.”
“A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.”
“A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.”
“A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.”
“A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.”
“A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.”
“A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.”
Source: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
“A person who takes a gun holds it to somebody’s head, and intimidates them for money or take their property from them. The person who gets into an argument and his only resort is to take a gun or some offensive weapon and eliminate the other person. I understand that many of these persons do not have reasoning skills. They do not have the basic conflict management skills, to resolve basic issues between themselves and others. So they resort to what they know best, which is violence. I’m talking about the animalistic instinct. Former Assistant Commissioner of Police with the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Mr. Hulan Hanna.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.”
“A person who takes responsibility of his life believes in the immutability of laws that govern this world. When we fail to achieve our desired fruit, it is because we failed to sow the right seed in the right soil at the right time.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“A person who takes your idea and information to use and build upon is your collaborator, tester and colleague. A person who takes your credit or your voice is your enemy, a thief who steals your societal recognition and approval for themselves and would be your tyrant.”
“A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.”
Source: Thrones, Dominations
“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.”
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.”
“A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts”