Words matter. These are the best People Quotes from famous people such as Marlo Thomas, Alan Watts, Billie Eilish, Gilbert Baker, Lenny Bruce, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
I owe my solitude to other people.
I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It’s beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can’t see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s – and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.
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.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Nobody’s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
People change and forget to tell each other.
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
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.
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don’t just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.
When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
