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People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- 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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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)
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
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
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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 that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
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
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
There is no evil and there are
no evil forces in the world.
There are only people of awareness,
and there are people who are fast asleep -
and sleep has no force.
The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people.
And one awakened person can awaken the whole world.
One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted
without losing it's light.
- Osho
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
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
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.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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