People Quotes

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

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.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don't care what people say about me.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.