People Quotes
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.Robert Cecil
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.George Washington Carve
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.Assyrian Prove
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.Herbert Samuel
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
People change and forget to tell eachother.Lillian Hellman
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.Unknown
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.Henry Mille
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
People forget how fast you did a job - - But they remember how well you did it.Howard W. Newton
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.John Lah
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.Charles Dudley Warne
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.E. M. Cioran
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
