Bullet Quotes

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add "within the limits of the law"
because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle,
that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

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

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

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

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

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

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

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

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

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

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