People Quotes

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Shakti Gawain

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcom S. Forbes

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

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

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

David Viscott

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Arthur Baldwin

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

Frederic William Maitland

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Melissa Timberman

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

Donna Summe

When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.

Eda LeShan

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

Jon Wynne Tyson

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

Albert Camus

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

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.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

Fred Allen

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Bennet Munro

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing".

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac