People Quotes

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

Robertson Davies

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

Sir Francis Bacon

Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midle

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Marita Bonne

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinge

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

Jean Ke

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

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert V. Prochnow

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Tom Lehre

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

George Orwell

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

Robert Sheckley

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

George Bernard Shaw

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