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Disparity Quote of the Day

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

To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

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

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

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

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

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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

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

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

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 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

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

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.

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

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

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

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

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