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People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology People
Perspective:
Do you always look at life from the same point-of-view?
Consider viewing a situation as another might view it.
Look from behind, underneath, from the distant heavens.
View the situation as someone of a different religion,
race, or nationality might view it.
Pretend you are an alien from a distant galaxy -
that should be good for a laugh.
Troubles only appear troubling to those close to them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
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
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
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