It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
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 understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
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
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
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
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
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
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
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)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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