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Welcome to these M. P. Follett Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
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