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People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
by Bill Cosby

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Forgiveness Self Letting-Go Moving-On

Quotes by Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby

Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

People Quotes and Sayings

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
- Bono

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr

Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

This is the answer to all questions about relationship.
When two people sing their lives in harmony,
their lives are grand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

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