Quotes of: Personal-freedom Keyword

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelic...

Michael O'Brien

The only person standing between your dreams and your success is none but YOU.. so all you need is to push YOURSELF.. Towards your goals.. to make it happen.

10 Alone

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

8 Attributes of Great Achievers

Don't take it personal. Whether people like or dislike you, it most probably is because of your beliefs, principles, and values...

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

You can't train people loyalty. A person with loyalty is a great asset than a smart but disloyal one...

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

If I were stranded on a desert island, and could have only one person and three things with me, I’d want Nietzsche, a pen, paper, and a stick-on mustache.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

Abandon

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

Adrian's Lost Chapter

It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.

Audition

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't a decision, it at one.

Afterparty

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

An Apology for Idlers

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Acacia: The War with the Mein