People Quotes

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

James A. LaFond - Lewis

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Charles Franklin Kettering

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffe

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Tom Daschle

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

Buddha

Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

We forfeit three - Fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lam

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Noel Coward

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Sidney Madwed

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.

Harold J. Seymou

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Archard

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire