People Quotes

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people – they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

A lot of people would say ‘sexy‘ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.

People see me as cute, but I’m so much more than that.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.