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People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 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
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- 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
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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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
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
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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)
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
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.
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
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