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Utmost Quote of the Day

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

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

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I have been brought up and trained to have
the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)

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

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

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

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

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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