People Quotes

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."