People Quotes

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

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

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Australian Aboriginal Elde

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

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.

Michael Marino

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `

Calvin Coolidge

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

Malcolm Forbes

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Kim Hubbard

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Will Cuppy

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Helle

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Nikita Khrushchev

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

Henry Boye