People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
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In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
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Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
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
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
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
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
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
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
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
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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