Personal Quotes

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to educate people on the issues of Personal Responsibility. If a nation or rather active citizens of a nation could successfully launch such campaigns and a good percentage of the populace begin to live by the principles of Personal Responsibility, which is “don’t blame others”, think of what you can do to fix it. Such a nation would cross the huddle of civilization in a record time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In nations where to most people, the personal responsibility of a citizen towards the nation does not really mean anything, most citizens of such nations end up playing the blame game

~ Sunday Adelaja

The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility.

~ Sunday Adelaja

History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

~ Sara Sheridan

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.

~ Haruki Murakami

I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.

~ Shannon Celebi

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

~ Haruki Murakami

A leader must be responsible for his people not his personal interest.

~ Bradley B. Dalina

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.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!

~ Veronica Purcell

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

~ Stephen Fry

Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.

~ Will Advise

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

Time should always by used well to maximise personal desires.

~ Steven Redhead

Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.

~ Joseph Heller

God will always turn trials, national and personal into the manifestation of His glory

~ Sunday Adelaja

It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.

~ Kenneth Eade

Who is right and who is wrong is a personal question.

~ Steven Redhead

Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.

~ Anton Chekhov

Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same. - A Perfect Circle.

~ Maynard James Keenan

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

~ Publilius Syrus

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

~ Matthew Arnold

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

~ John C. Squire

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

~ Charles Dickens

His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.

~ Howard Hughes

The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.

~ R. G. Daniels

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

~ Stephen Vincent Benét

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

~ Nikolai Gogol

People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.

~ Richard J. Needham

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

~ Bible

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

~ Thomas Fuller

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

~ Don Herold

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

~ John Galsworthy