People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
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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
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- 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 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
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
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
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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You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
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
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
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Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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
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
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)
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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