People Quotes

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Russell Bake

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

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

Arthur Schopenhaue

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Confucius

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Douglas Adams

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

George Herbert Walker Bush

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Author Unknown

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.

Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible

I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Ke

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

People come up to me and say, Emo, do people really come up to you?

Emo Phillips

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parke

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Lao - Tzu

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish Prove

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Helen Kelle

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

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

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

Author Unknown

Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene