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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.
This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein
There are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty.
- Jewel
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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)
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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)
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
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 generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
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
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
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