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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Forgiveness
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
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
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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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
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
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
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
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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