People will, in a great degree,
by 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

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

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

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the best leader's work is done the people 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

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

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

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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