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People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Related topics: Motivational

If you have never experienced the practice
of daily journaling, give it a try. I highly recommend it.
When I say "journaling," I am not referring to a diary
in which to record the events of your life,
I am talking about a place to record your feelings -
a friend with whom to share your troubles, fears, hopes, and dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

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

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

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

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

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

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

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

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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 who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

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

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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