Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
- 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 
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 
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 
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung 
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa 
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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 are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
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)
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
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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 most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
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Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
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If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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 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
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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
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
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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