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Unobstructed Quote of the Day

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

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add "within the limits of the law"
because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson

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We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
- Abraham Lincoln

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle,
that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson

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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

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

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- 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

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

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

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

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

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

Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't try to manage people;
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

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

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

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

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

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

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

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

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

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