People Quotes

J. wilbur chapman - look for strengths in people, not weakness; for...
Katharine whitehorn - the rule is not to talk about money with people...
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Thomas Carlyle
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
George Bernard Shaw
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
James F. Hind
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore Harold White
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Napoleon Hill
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George Frost Kennan
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
Voltaire
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
Jean Guehenno
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
Fred Allen
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Two people kissing always look like fish.
Andy Warhol
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitze
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.
Jeff Herman
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
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.
Eric Hoffe
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G. K. Chesterton
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
Kim Hubbard
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowen