P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.”
Source: Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem
“Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.”
“Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water-and at times, of course, more so. By prayer I mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that our prayers are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective.”
“Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.”
“Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.”
“Personal privacy is a closely held American value.”
“Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight.”
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
Source: Billy Budd
“Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.”
“Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.”
“Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.”
Source: The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
“Personal qualities are much more important than qualifications.”
“Personal qualities today are increasingly marginalized in favor of technocratic, market-driven skills. Instead, finance is the new courage, branding is the new compassion, and coding is the new contemplation.”
“Personal reason is admittedly a meager asset, but take away human reason and we would exist in a world of utter ignorance and perpetual darkness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.”
Source: The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium
“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.”
“Personal relationship with God has been replaced by church activities.”
“Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.”
“Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.”
“Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect.”
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
“Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.”
Source: Ferraro: My Story
“Personal responsibilities cannot compensate for societal irresponsibility”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“Personal responsibility can’t be delegated.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”
“Personal responsibility is a more valuable position than any political grievance.”
Source: Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want
“Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.”
“Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.”
“Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.”
“Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation.”
“Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.”
“Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem”
“Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.”
“Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.”
“Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.”
“Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.”
“Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.”
“Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.”
“Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.”
“Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.”
“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”
Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen
“Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come.”
“Personal spiritual development generates the anointing, integrity contains it while accountability sustains it.”
“Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.”
“Personal storytelling is akin to taking a detailed accounting of our actions, deeds, thoughts, and impulses, a comprehensive listing of our acts of depravity and kindness, an exhaustive statement of being. Scrolling backward through our muddling, taking an incisive look inside our hard case craniums, we gather a vision of the desired future course of action for ourselves and simultaneously send out a glimmer of morning light for people who witness our life force stammering its series of dashed, interlinear lines across the infinite galaxies of time and space. Analogous to the impulsive death dance of a shooting star, our final spasmodic rattle illumines the unrelenting darkness of unbounded space for other stargazing voyagers to witnesses. By being a dash of light in a wash of darkness, we inspire other intrepid explorers.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Personal struggles, mistakes, and perseverance are part of every person’s life story. A proper mindset can turn failure into a gift. Specific human qualities such as intelligence and adaptive skills can be cultivated through applied effort to assist a person overcome a resounding failure. Each person would be wise to ask how does a person cope – grapple – with failure? We derive strength from our struggles.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels”
“Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like.”
“Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.”