People Quotes
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.Indira Nehru Gandhi
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.Brian Tracy
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.Author Unknown
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.J. R. R. Tolkien
When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy.Sanaya Roman
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.Marita Bonne
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.Victor Borge
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.Peggy Joyce
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.Nancy Spain
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.Henry Ward Beeche
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.Jack Kerouac, On the Road
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
There is? nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.Sandra Cisneros
Successful people breed success.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.Lee Iacocca
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.E. M. Forster, as a small child
