Quotes on People

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I want to avoid becoming too styled, too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.