Best Personality Quotes for Self-Improvement - page 7

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
 Gelett Burgess
This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
 David Wolfe
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
 Myles Munroe
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.
 Gil Kane
The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes.
 Laurie Simmons
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
 Jonathan Lethem
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.
 Louis J. Halle
I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders was what I needed to move forward musically, and it's led to lots of new things.
 Michael Gira
With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.
 Selena
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.
 Chris Hedges
You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.
 Gregory Hines
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
 Michael Ramsey
Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.
 Suhaib Webb
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
 Bobby Sands
Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.
 Robert Muller
People have multiple identities.
People have multiple identities.
 Samuel P. Huntington
All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.
 Sandra Scarr