People Quotes

Abraham lincoln - upon the subject of education, not presuming to...
Anatole france - if fifty million people say a foolish thing, it...
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.
Will Rogers
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Jane Harrison
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell, (attributed)
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Will Durant
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Author Unknown
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
Unknown
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
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 Harold White
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
Elias Boudinot
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.
Robert Sheckley
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Henry David Thoreau
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.
Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar - B - Cue
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Norman Vincent Peale
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Mark Twain
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berge
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
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
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann von Goethe
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin