Quotes on People

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.

What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.