People Quotes: people sayings, quotations, picture quotes

'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

Short Witty Humor Book

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Short Witty Humor Society

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Short Morality

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Short Humor

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Short Advice Intelligence Idea

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

Short

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Short Success Truth

Power doesn't corrupt. People are corrupt. When they get empowered, it becomes apparent.

Short Truth Wisdom Power

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Short Truth Witty Human nature

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Short

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

Short

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Short

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Short Humor

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Short Truth Wisdom

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Short Children

Poor people have big TVs. Rich people have big libraries.

Short

Don't give people what they want, give them what they need.

Short Writing

It is not the opulence of the structure but the inclusiveness of the people which makes a home

Short Inclusiveness

Money, influence, comfort and intelligence come as blessings, but become curses for most people

Short Money Intelligence Comfort

Most people will not step into tomorrow because they hold on to yesterday.

Short Fear

People's idea of success is to be just one step ahead of another lame person.

Short Success Truth One liners

Don't debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace.

Short

Most people develop mental efficiency as a by-product of their efforts for material success.

Short Success Effort

Most people imitate others. You should be original, and whatever you do, do well.

Short

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Funny Life Short Truth

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

Funny Problems Idea Human nature

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

Funny Marriage Romance

Actually the smartest thing about most people is their phone

Funny Short Insult

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Funny Short

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Funny Religion Short

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Funny Mistake

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Funny Happiness

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Funny Thinking

Loosen up a bit - laugh more, get involved with people around you, do simple things. If you only do very important things, you will become dead serious

Funny Truth Witty Wisdom

There is too much talk about heaven hell because too many people have made a hell out of themselves

Funny Short Truth

People who want to marry should first have to learn to control their emotions. Two people placed together in the arena of marriage without this training battle worse than opponents in a World War! Wars, at least, come to an end after a time

Funny Marriage War

People are so skillful in their ignorance

Funny Short Ignorance

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Funny Hate Food

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible

Funny

If something happens, something entirely went wrong & no way to fix 2 people and they went apart, that's unfortunate, but why should you ever talk about marriage and divorce in one breath? It's a crime to think on those lines. But if it so happens & they have to separate that will any way inevitably happen. You don't have to plan it at the time of wedding

Funny Marriage Humor

The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people's ego and still manage to remain their friend.

Funny Friends Spirituality

When people are alone, they become spiritual. When in company, they become religious

Funny Politics Religion Short

There are no good people and bad people. Everyone is oscillating between the two. But for sure there are the Intelligent and the Idiotic.

Funny Intelligence

Only miserable people will have a long life, because if you are miserable you will always feel life is too long that you will want to cut it short.

Funny Life Short

Do you know that you will also die? (I'm asking) because most people believe that other people die. Intellectually they know, but they think they are forever.

Funny Acceptance

Confused people are better than people who have drawn wrong conclusions, because people who have drawn wrong conclusions go at it with full gusto. Confused people hesitate to fight.

Funny

If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are.

Funny Happiness Success Humor

These days people are on self-help, they manufacture their diseases, they don't wait for any infection to happen

Funny Humor Health

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Life Time Wisdom Advice

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Life Wisdom Character

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Life Money

Intelligence is incapable of believing anything, but it has the potential to know everything. When people admit that they do not know, all beliefs fall apart by themselves and people become more alert to life around them

Life Belief Intelligence

Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons.

Life Wisdom The light in the heart

Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you.

Life Short The light in the heart

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Life Love Hurt

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter

Life Judgement Character Action

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

Life Time

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Life Choice

All you can do in life is- be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Life Love Individuality

People started this philosophy, 'Thank God its Friday!' If you are not enjoying what you are doing five days a week, then why are you doing it? It's a very brief life

Life Philosophy Work Perspective

Most people think, “this is work”, “that is life”. That means a large part of your life is not life

Life Wisdom Work

Most people live on the surface of life. But it is by deep-sea diving in the ocean of thought that you receive the pearls of knowledge

Life Knowledge Thought

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don't forget to lift someone up.

Life The light in the heart

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Life Music Short Humor

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Life Truth

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Life Compassion Idea

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Life Book

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Life Analogy

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Life Sadness Pleasure

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Life Choice Action

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

Life Short

People are thinking they can enjoy something. NO. If you are joyful everything is a pleasant experience

Life Experience Thinking

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Love Short Advice

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Love Kindness

The important thing is not that people love you but that you are loving

Love Short Success Truth

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

Love

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Love Positive Attitude Smile

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

Love Hurt

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Love Short Words

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Love Relationship Expectation

If you are trying to extract joy, love & pleasantness out of somebody, this is going to be disastrous for both people

Love Relationship Joy

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Love Question

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

Love

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

Love

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Love

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Love Truth Understanding

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

Love Short Humor

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Love Short Seeking World

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become... as strong as they can be.

Love Strength

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

Love Short Loss

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Love Short Secret

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

Love Pain Human nature

Not many people are ready to have that kind of a love affair where it'll make two lives into one.

Love Short

Most people are competent of using love to fulfill the domestic needs but to go beyond that they are not ready. When one is ready and another is not ready or one is making an effort and another doesn't have the effort, then it feels like somebody is becoming a doormat

Love Marriage Relationship

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Love Romantic Short

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with

Love Relationship Short

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Humor Humans

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Humor Intelligence Insult

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Humor World

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Humor Advice Human nature

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

Humor Opinion

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Humor Knowledge Ignorance Human nature

People love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

Humor

People are capable of suffering just about anything. If you send them to heaven they will suffer because they will miss hell.

Humor Suffering

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Humor

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Humor

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Humor

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Humor

People, generally, suck.

Humor

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

Humor

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Humor

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Humor Morality

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

Humor

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Humor

A whole lot of people are living like aliens. When you live here without any involvement or belonging, you are an alien, isn't it?

Humor Question

Twitter is a way to broadcast messages to hundreds of millions of people to find the few dozen that you actually want to talk to

Humor

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

Humor Suffering

Be always with people who inspire you; surround yourself with people who lift you up

Inspirational Short Friends

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Inspirational Life Truth Hurt

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Inspirational

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Inspirational Life

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Inspirational Short Truth Wisdom

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Inspirational Short

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

Inspirational Short The light in the heart

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

Inspirational Relationship

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Inspirational Life Relationship

Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

Inspirational Life Problems World

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Inspirational Relationship Short Success

Competitors are not enemies. They are people who keep reminding you of your own shortcomings. Your quality control.

Inspirational Short Success

It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.

Inspirational Life Acceptance The light in the heart

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine

Inspirational Music Mind

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Inspirational Success Work

Being a leader does not mean dominating the situation. It means empowering people to do what they would not have imagined possible

Inspirational Possibility

If you are keen on doing something about human suffering, attend to yourself first, and also to people around you. That is the best way to start

Inspirational Suffering

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Truth Human nature

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Truth Lie Honesty

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Truth Personality

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Truth Pain

People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Truth Idea

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

Truth Trust

It is perfectly monstrous... the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Truth Humor

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Truth Humor Character

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Truth Ignorance

The world is hungry not because there is no food. There is more food than the 7.2 billion people on the planet can eat. It is just that those who need it do not get it, because one way or the other, those who have the power and the means have not cared enough to do something about it

Truth Food Power World

If you don't have a sense of involvement, you will always try to get the best deal out of somebody. That means you must meet the dumbest people in the world. Intelligent people will never bite your dumb deals.

Truth Witty Intelligence

If you're waiting for people to understand you and act, it is only a pipe dream; it's never going to happen

Truth Expectation Reality Understanding

The biggest mistake that people make is they try to be happier than someone else.

Happiness Short Truth Mistake

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Happiness Laughter Joy

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Happiness

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Happiness Peace

Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside.

Happiness Philosophy Short Truth

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.

Happiness Life Short The light in the heart

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Happiness Life Problems

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

Happiness Love Short

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow...

Happiness Life

What most people are calling marriage right now is just a whole bundle of expectations about how the other person should make heaven for you. If you're trying to extract happiness out of somebody, you will be disappointed.

Happiness Marriage Relationship Expectation

How people are is their choice. How I am is my choice. No matter what they do, no one can make me angry, happy or unhappy. These privileges I have kept to myself

Happiness Choice Self control

It is hard to give up the known sense pleasures of the present for unknown pleasures that may arrive in the future. This is the reason why millions of people would rather eat, drink, and try to be merry today than take the trouble to meditate and make an investment for a future of lasting happiness

Happiness Spirituality Future Pleasure

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

Happiness Positive Attitude

if you are going to make people around you joyful and relieved only when you die, that's not a good way to live.

Death Funny Life Philosophy

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Death Short Fear

Before you and I came here on this planet, a countless number of people have walked on this planet, where are they? All topsoil. You will also be topsoil unless someone buries you real deep fearing you may rise from the dead

Death Funny Truth Witty

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

Death Short Humor

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.

Death Life Relationship

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Death Short Humor

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Death Time

A whole lot of people are carrying grave faces as if they are practicing the final posture. Time we work towards life, not death. Because when it comes to death, everybody is a Natural Star.

Death Funny Life Humor

The unfortunate reality is that most people will know peace only with death- "Rest in Peace". It is time we do something about it in life

Death Life Reality

Most people go about their lives as if death is not going to happen to them

Death Funny Short Truth

From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death.

Death Short Joy

People also fear death because they have been in this cage of flesh so long that they feel timid about leaving its security. But it is foolish to be afraid. Just think, no more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living

Death Fear Body

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Freedom Society

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom Fear Responsibility

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Freedom

For most people, love means, 'You must do what I want.' No, love means, they can do what they want, and we still love them

Freedom Love Relationship

People have a completely messed up idea of what freedom is. Giving in to your compulsions is not freedom

Freedom Idea

People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can't fathom.

Freedom

Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes. You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can't have both

Freedom Choice

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

Freedom Love

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

Freedom Hate Short

If people choose to make misery out of themselves, what can be done? That's not Creation's fault. Creation just gave you the freedom so that you could go beyond.

Freedom Creation

Most people's lives are mortgaged to the social reality around them. Yoga is about releasing the mortgage

Reality Society Yoga

People swallow the bitter pill of evil because it is sugarcoated with immediate pleasure.

Wisdom Evil Pleasure

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Advice Attitude

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Goal Life Short

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.

Being human Reality Human nature

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Understanding

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Change Short

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Heart Love Acceptance

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your friends

Friendship

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

Family Love

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

Belief Silence

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Philosophy Idea

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Power

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Belief

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Evil Morality

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Habit Understanding

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Witty Humor Art

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

Society

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Hate Life Relationship

The expectations that most people are creating are such that there is no human being on the planet who could ever fulfill those expectations.

Desire Expectation

This is how life is happening for a lot of people. Because of the fear of instability, they sit on a bicycle with the stand on. You can pedal, you can get some exercise, but you are not going anywhere.

Courage Funny Success Fear

If you see that people are the way they are because of their limitations, you will strive to help them break their limitations, rather than judge them.

Judgement Limitation

People are running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.

Courage Truth Wisdom Reality

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Relationship Friends

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Forgiveness Humor

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Friends Humor

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Understanding World

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Belief Lie

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Experience Learning

If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.

Anger Pain

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

History

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

God Humor Money

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Too many people live their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks, and losing themselves in the process.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Wisdom Book Reading

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Education Inspirational Future

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.

Family Truth

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

Heart

Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Opinion Life lessons

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Anger

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Friendship Heart Life

Hell is-other people

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Friendship Relationship

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Individuality

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows... Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Perception

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Hurt

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Personality

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Failure Short

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Friendship Life Advice

We've spent so much time judging what other people created, that we've created very, very little of our own.

Time

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Friendship Relationship Short Personality

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

History Knowledge

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Honesty

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Religion

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls

Darkness Soul Consciousness

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Heart Learning

The people who test your patience are a blessing.. Without them, you can't practice patience.

Family

I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive.

Relationship Friends Positive Attitude

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Success Perspective Human nature

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Relationship Short

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Control

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Change Short

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists... It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainments... God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

Spirituality Secret

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Heart Inspirational Short Passion

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

Wisdom

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

Wisdom Enemy Honesty Integrity

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Work

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Philosophy Humor

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Religion Humor Problems

It's easy to make friends if you let people laugh at you.

Friendship Short Laughter

Very few people transcend out of their intelligence, most people have to be thrashed by life; only then they will transcend

Spirituality Intelligence Suffering

Unfortunately most people utter the word human only with reference to the limitations of being human

Being human Limitation

Morality has become important in society because people have forsaken their humanity. Morality is a poor substitute for Humanity

Morality Humanity Society

It is not that belief is blind. It is just that belief blinds people.

Religion Short Truth Belief

People who have failed in their lives are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life are suffering their success. If you suffer your failure, it is okay, if you start suffering your success, that is the real tragedy of life.

Failure Life Success Suffering

Concentration consists in focusing one hundred percent attention upon one thing at a time. All efficient people possess some power of concentration as a byproduct of the vocation or avocation they follow.

To the unenlightened, the drama (of life) often seems chaotic and unjust. But God purposely did not automatically make all people poor or all people millionaires, because if everyone were alike this drama could not go on

God

Do not selfishly seek anything from others; if you have no expectations, then what can people take from you?

Expectation

Do not keep company with people unless you are prepared to give them your full attention

Friendship Short Life lessons

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained

Habit

The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people

Analogy

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

Short

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Beauty Wisdom Advice

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Advice Feeling

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Passion Thought Opinion

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Short Analogy

How would your life be different if...You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day...You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Change Kindness Compassion

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Dreams Hope

sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...

"What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better."

Heart

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

Change Inspirational Life Relationship

"Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."

Hate Humor

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Loneliness Sadness World

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Book Reading

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

Short Life lessons

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Short Humor

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Music Short Comfort

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Loneliness

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum

Acceptance Control Opinion

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.

Short Kindness

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Politics Humor Problems

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Short Humor Words

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

Short Trust

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

Short Humor Sadness

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Hate

In the end, the most interesting people always leave.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Faith Humanity

In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

Judgement Action

Throughout history, people with new ideas, who think differently and try to change things, have always been called troublemakers.

Change History Idea

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

Sadness Comfort

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire.

Desire Life World Humans

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.

Belief Lie

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Suffering Light

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

Friendship

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Short

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Short Secret

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense - to fight the government.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Short

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

Pain Hurt

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

Education Hope

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

Beauty Life Action

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Character Reality Life lessons Human nature

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

Music

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

Short Liberation

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Short Secret

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Silence

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

Reality

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Short Power Understanding

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Courage Thought Pleasure

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order

A place is only as good as the people in it.

Short

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Change Inspirational Short

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

Education Humor Intelligence

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.

Knowing

Mind is a fantastic Gift to humanity, but what a horrible thing people have made out of it

Humanity Mind

When you are compulsive, naturally you will step over many people.

Self control

Belief leads people to accept the most ridiculous things as the absolute truth

Short Truth Belief One liners

It takes a lot of intelligence to realize how stupid you are. Most people cannot see it. You can only see it if the very urge to be smart and special, the very urge to be better than someone, is completely vanquished within you.

Intelligence

One third of the food produced in the world gets wasted, while one in nine people don't have enough to eat. This is not a failure of agriculture - it is a failure of the human heart

Failure Heart Humanity Food

Once you are clear about what you are doing and why, other people's opinions will not matter.

Opinion

Unfortunately, people consider Economy as today's & Ecology as tomorrow's issue. But time to understand that ecology is today's issue. The enormity and urgency of ecological issues cannot be ignored

Understanding

Using people and loving things. This is a complete misunderstanding of life. Things are for use. People are for love

Life Love Humanity

I refuse to recognize people as Muslims, Christians, or Hindus. I see human beings as human beings.

Religion Short Being human Humanity

Leadership is not about dominance, about power over people, but of dedication & sacrifice for a cause beyond oneself

Power

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

Compassion Suffering

Most people unfortunately don't value their word as much as they value their money

Short Money

People resist change because they rather stick to the known devil than pursue the unknown angel. Familiarity breeds comfort and inertia

Change Comfort

When a child is born, it needs nurturing, training, and molding. So the need for family arose. Family is a very supportive base for a human being to grow. But for many people, family does not become a support, it becomes a hurdle. Not because family is a problem, but because of the way you hold it

Family Problems Children

The only way you can be successful is by including people. Anyway you are doing it - unwillingly; being conscious means to do it willingly

Success Inclusiveness

How come a lot of people do not enjoy the week - only the weekend? Simply because they are doing things only to earn a living; it does not mean a damn thing to them.

Work Perspective

It doesn't matter who you are, life doesn't work for you unless you do the right things.. people who believed they are good people are always wondering why it's not working for them and why it's working for someone else, whoever does the rights, for him it works, the existence is not judgemental.

Life Success Existence

Either you create your situations or the situations make you... Some people are being created by situations, but some people are creating the situations in which they live, and that is the whole empowerment of being a human being.

Being human

If your goal and actions are right, and you keep going the same way, then the same people who are talking about you, the same people who are criticizing you, will venerate you in ten years' time. That is how life is.

Goal Inspirational Success Action

To be involved and not entangled is something that is essential for people to be effective in life

Life Short Success

People are afraid of entanglement, (therefore) they talk about detachment. If you are detached you will not know life. Only in involvement you know life.

Whenever conflict flares up in the world today, people talk about peace. We need to understand, peace is not something that we have to create. Conflict is our creation.

Peace World

People are willing to share what they don't have, not what they do have! People who don't have, talk about sharing, compromise and peace. People who have it all, are always going after and getting what they want

Peace

People are identified with their nations, their religions, and their communities, but not with their humanity. If people were identified with their humanity, we could always sit down and talk, and finish these issues between us

Religion Humanity

Fundamentally, management is your ability to inspire people to do their best and that is all you can do. If everybody around you is doing his best, that is the best possible management that can happen.

Short

If you utter the word relationship, people simply think it has to be sex-based. Nothing else is a relationship. Some sex-based relationship is the only relationship. This is unfortunate. This has happened because your identification with the body has become so strong

Relationship Body

People don't have food to eat, not because there's no food in the world, but because people who are capable have grabbed everything

Food

You either insulate yourself from other people's pain or you insulate yourself from the very joy of life. Both could be alive in you at the same time... if you looked at life just the way it is, not distorting it according to your emotions, your identifications

Life Emotions Pain Joy

More people in the world are suffering from indigestion than of hunger. Unfortunately, that's the reality.

Short Reality Suffering World

Whatever other people do, make yourself beautiful, you know they're doing nasty things and you're still wonderful (within you), this is fantastic. (But) They are doing nasty things and you think they're doing beautiful things, this is stupid.

Relationship Perspective

If you hurt other people because they have an expectation of you that's their problem. If they have an agreement from you that's yours

Problems Expectation Hurt

If you are leveraged with capital, code, or people, and own equity, then good decisions have a much larger earning impact than hard work

It's becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude.

The highest status people in human history are those that asked for nothing and gave everything.

History Kindness Humans

The only people worth envying are the ones incapable of envy.

Short

Whatever a great person does, common people imitate. His actions set a standard for the people of the world.

Action Society Bhagavad gita World

Even wise people act according to their natures, for all living beings are propelled by their natural tendencies. What will one gain by repression?

Nature Wisdom Bhagavad gita

Deny karma. Too many people misinterpret the meaning of karma, adopting a fatalistic attitude. You do not have to accept karma.

The small waves and the big waves all arise from the same ocean. So, when we stand aside spiritually and view every person and every religion impersonally, we shall see that everything is made of God

God Religion Spirituality Non-duality

People who marry and divorce time and again never give the seeds of divine love a chance to grow on the soil of faithful commitment

Faith Marriage

Most of the people living on earth today were not here a hundred years ago. Others were here before us. And we who are now walking the streets of the world will not be here a hundred years hence

Earth World

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Short Humor Insult

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

Change Perspective

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Philosophy Judgement

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

Short Book Reading

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Change

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Short Kindness Book Reading

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Politics Humor

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

"Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?"

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Faith

If people around you cannot help loving you, that's a nice way to be.. if you have made yourself in such a way that nobody around you can love you, then the only succor you have is God- it's the most unfortunate way to live

God Love

Whether one manufactures a safety pin, a computer or a spaceship, or teaches people how to meditate, there is only one business in the world - human wellbeing

Humanity World

If you eliminate the need to get something out of Human relationships, if you naturally overflow with joy, you can have fabulous relationships with all sorts of people

Relationship Joy

I always found people coming out of restaurants have more joy on their faces than those coming out of a temple or church. What a shame that a dosa can do something more than the divine

Funny Witty Joy

Only when you are truly joyful, can you genuinely reach out to other people

Short Joy Inclusiveness

No one likes to be managed. But everyone longs to be included

Relationship Inclusiveness

This is a dream of many people: unconditional love. There is no such thing - in every relationship, there are conditions.

Dreams Love Relationship Truth

What will I do with a billion dollars? My interest is seven billion people

Yoga makes old people young in terms of energy & rejuvenation; and young people old in terms of thought & wisdom

Witty Wisdom Thought Yoga

Predictions are for those people who neither have the capability to make a plan or execute a plan.

Most people have not paid any attention to life because they're busy conquering the world

Funny Life Short Sarcasm

If you experience everything around you as "myself" do you need morality to be good to people?

Experience Morality Non-duality

Wrong sense of intelligence has entered people's minds, they think if they make a problem out of every solution they're intelligent, no no, if you find solutions for every problem- that is intelligence

Funny Problems Mind Sarcasm

It doesn't matter what you want to do, if you include people, you have a tremendous edge that nobody else can have

Inclusiveness

Leaders should not stand in front of the people. They should stand behind the people

Short

Nobody gets anywhere just because he desires it; people get somewhere because they acquire the necessary capability

Desire Success

People may think this is extreme, but, You must go and volunteer in hospital wards where people die and you must see, it's very important, only then you become sensitive to life, life becomes super valuable because you know it is limited

Life Truth Spirituality

People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite

The modern conceit - educated people think they can outsmart complex systems like evolution, capitalism, weather, biology...

Hating people on Twitter is the mark of mediocrity.

Short

The people you most want to impress can read your intentions.

Short

Cool people are considered “cool” because they break the rules and get away with it.

The people who control the chokepoints through which information flows are the most powerful people in the world.

Control

The two kinds of people - those who want money, and those who want status.

Money

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

Philosophy

Many people may doubt that finding God is the purpose of life, but everyone can accept the idea that the purpose of life is to find happiness. I say that God is Happiness. He is Bliss. He is Love. He is Joy that will never go away from your soul

God Love Soul Joy

Many people read constantly and yet cannot tell you what they have read. The best way to read a book is to introspect about it. See how it applies to your own life. And learn to discriminate.

Life Book Reading

The sun shines equally on a piece of charcoal and a diamond. But the diamond receives and reflects the sun's light, whereas the charcoal does not. Similarly, all people are exposed to the light of God, but not all receive and reflect that light

God Light