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Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

Confession Quotes and Sayings

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

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

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

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

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer

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