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Motivational People Quotes

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People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind


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- 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 understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith


 

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

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

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

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

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

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

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

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

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

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)

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins


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