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Sophocles Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Sophocles Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Cynical Belief Beliefs Tradition Religion

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

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

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will 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)

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

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 grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

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

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

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 seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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)

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

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

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

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

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie