People Quotes

People in their handling 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

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

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

Andre Gide

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra, Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

John M. Richardson, Jr.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

J. P. McEvoy

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

Joe Moore

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

Joe Moore

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

People who know the least always argue the most.

Author Unknown

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.

David Armistead

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy.

Sanaya Roman

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell