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What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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)
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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)
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
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
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
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
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