Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ...
by Lord Chesterfield

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

Related topics: Cynical Friendship Relationship

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield

If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield

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

Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

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

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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

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

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.

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

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

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

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

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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