Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Related topics: Cynical Life Human-Nature Psychology
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below.
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
---------
Thank you for visiting: Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. ... by George Carlin.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Quotes and Sayings.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright ©. You may read about our disclaimer, our privacy policy, our copyright policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, and the list of all our websites.