When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
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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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
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
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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
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
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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
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
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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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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
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- 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
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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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