Personal Life Quotes

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

~ Dashanne Stokes

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone.

~ Larissa Macfarquhar

When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to.

~ Albert Camus

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives...

~ Assegid Habtewold

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I am sure of this: I am not crying. It is just that stupid drops of water that comes out of my eyes, now and then.

~ Saravana Kumar Murugan

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

~ Taylor Swift

To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life.

~ Marty Rubin

I always knew there was no one who is going to accept my flaws and understand my brokenness.And i knew it very well that nobody would hold my hand when the wind of darkness overcome my life so i just pushed them,i pushed them all away.

~ Carl W. Bazil