Roused Quotes

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- 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

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

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs

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

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

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

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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