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Welcome to these Convention Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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 can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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 best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
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.
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
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
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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 who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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