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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
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
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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 manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
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
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
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
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
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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 lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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)
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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