I’m not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can’t fulfil people’s expectations, I’m sorry, but it’s not my fault.
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.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
People just see the shine. They don’t see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks… I ain’t finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am.
You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
I’m just thankful I’m surrounded by good people.
People see me as cute, but I’m so much more than that.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Beauty ain’t always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, ‘Damn.’
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn’t because they’re trying to fool you or because they’re hypocrites. It’s because they badly want to be that thing, and so they’ll try to be it.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.
With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Everyone’s a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that’s something I’ve been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that’s all that matters.
This is what people don’t understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It’s not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids – and this is the problem with school lunch right now – are getting sugar, fat, empty calories – lots of calories – but no nutrition.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
People say, ‘We remember the good times.’ Well I remember the bad times.
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
