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Chop Quote of the Day

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

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

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

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

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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)

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

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

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

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

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

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

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

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

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

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

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

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

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

The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

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.

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

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

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

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

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

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