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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
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 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 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
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
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
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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 dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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'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
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 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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
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
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
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
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
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
Affirmation:
All people are my heart-felt brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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
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
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
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
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
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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