People Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about People
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom
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 
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
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
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
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
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
- Bono
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
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
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
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
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 one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- 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
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
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
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger
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
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
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
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
People in their handlings 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
There are 6 pages of People Quotes: 2 3 4 5 6
Thank you for visiting these quotes and sayings. See more "Best Quotes."
Please sign up to receive my Free Daily Quotes Email on the form below.
