People Quotes

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplie

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

Stephen Butler Leacock

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!

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kingsley Amis

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.

Kurt Cobain

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

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

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collie

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

Determined people working together can do anything.

Jim Casey, Founder of UPS

Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.

Douglas Jerrold

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

Leo Rosten

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Author Unknown

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewig

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

Unknown

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

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

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton