What people believe prevails over the truth. ...
by Sophocles

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

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

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

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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

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

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

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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