Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. ...
by George Carlin

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin

Related topics: Cynical Life Human-Nature Psychology

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin

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

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin

I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin

Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin

So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin

Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin

I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin

One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin

The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin

If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin

Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin

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

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

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

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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