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People will forget what you said,
by Maya Angelou

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

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The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou

Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou

If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

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

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

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

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

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

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

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

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

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

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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

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

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

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

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

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

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

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