People Quotes
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.W. Clement Stone
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.Albert Einstein
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.Bill Watterson
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.W. Somerset Maugham
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas A. Edison
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.Malcolm Forbes
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.George Carlin
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
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
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.Marchioness Townsend
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.Nigel
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.Samuel Goldwyn
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.Dagobert D. Runes
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.Adolf Hitle
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.Sandra Swinney
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.Joseph Stalin
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.Woodrow Wilson
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.Michael Marino
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.Charles Franklin Kettering
