People Quotes
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.George Bancroft
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Where there is no vision, the people perish.Proverbs 29: 18
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.Unknown
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.Kim Hubbard
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.Max Percy
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.Plato
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.Kahlil Gibran
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.Morrow Mayo
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
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. Boetcke
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.Leo Tolstoy
I drink to make other people seem more interesting.George Jean Nathan
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.John Kenneth Galbraith
