People Quotes

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

Andre Gide

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jane Fonda

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers.

Joe Moore

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy.

Sanaya Roman

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Aristotle

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

Andrew A. Rooney

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luthe

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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.

Bokonon

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Ghandi

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

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.

Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Anthony Robbins

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Charles Simmons

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

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Albert Gallatin

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold