People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
by Bill Cosby

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Forgiveness Self Letting-Go Moving-On

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

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

Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

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

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

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

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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