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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.
This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
There are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty.
- Jewel
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
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
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
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
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)
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
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)
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.
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 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
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
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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