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Welcome to these Worthless Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
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
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
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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
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
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 great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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.
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
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
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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