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Welcome to these Edgar Watson Howe Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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 that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- 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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
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 often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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)
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
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
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
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
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
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
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
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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