Temperament Quotes

Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

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

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

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

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

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

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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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