Browsing Topic Best People Quotes

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you’ll stop living to impress people.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

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

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

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

The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

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

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

People that complete other people’s vision are understated.

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

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

To lead people, walk behind them.

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.