People Quotes

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Thomas Peters
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Le Rochefoucauld
Anatole france - people who have no weaknesses are terrible there...
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
Edward bulwer - lytton - when people have no other tyrant, their own...
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
Robert M. Pirsig
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.
Steve Martini
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Ben Franklin
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
John Wesley
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
Horace Greeley
H. r. schaffer, o magazine, may 2003 - there is? nothing to suggest that mothering...
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
Stanley Marcus
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mille
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?
Pat Schroede
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
Robert Zend
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.
Susan Sontag
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Epictetus
You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edgar Watson Howe
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.
Tom Lehre
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Theresa
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
Carl Jung
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein