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People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Related topics: Motivational Values Goals Purpose
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
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Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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.
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
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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.
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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