Inspirational People Quotes

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~ Virginia Satir

Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style. ~ A.D. Posey

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong? ~ Jodi Picoult

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. ~ Irving Kristol

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros. ~ Dean Koontz

It's breaking my heart the way this world is so mean to people with pure intentions and soft hearts.
With time I've seen much cruelty towards good people that instead of being cherished, they are actually being used.
Instead of being appreciated and valued, they are being taken for granted and considered as an option or a backup plan.
Because whenever those ones are needed they gonna be there and their doors are always wide open.
So there is no need to wonder why this world is only getting filthier and uglier. Since we have always been ruining everything beautiful left around .
even those rare, kind and loving souls in our life... ~ Samiha Totanji

Anything that's shiny, shines due to its reflective quality. Reflection. People usually think that you are shiny because you are shiny. But what does it actually mean? It means that you reflect back to others the beauty in themselves and the love and care that they give to you. It's never actually about you. It's actually about everyone else. Your capability to reflect determines how luminous you are. ~ C. JoyBell C.

One of the most inspirational people I have ever known is Viktor Frankl, ~ Stephen R. Covey

You can please some of the people some of the time, others you can please once in a while and still others you can't please any of the time, but if you only strive to please yourself all of the time, you have and are a problem. ~ Belva Rae Staples

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. ~ Jodi Picoult

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted ... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life. ~ Michael Beckwith

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect. ~ Christopher Lee

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. ~ Edgard Varese

If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else. ~ Larry Ellison

Other people are not medicine. ~ Amy Poehler

When people are lame, they love to blame. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. ~ Plato

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd? ~ Peter Thomas

People are locked up in all sorts of ways. ~ Emma Donoghue

People are amazingly beautiful not because of how they look; they are beautiful because of who they are. ~ Debasish Mridha

Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. ~ David Ogilvy

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not! ~ Jackie Hill

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value. ~ Patricia Deegan

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ~ Bertrand Russell

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8) ~ Joseph Campbell

Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. THey have their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them. When something good happens, they feel good. When something bad happens, they feel bad. They don't realize that their feelings are the cause of what is happening to them. As they react with negative feelings to something that has happened, they give out more negative feelings, adn they receive back more negative circumstances. ~ Rhonda Byrne

I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you ... I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman." ~ Margaret Cho

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution. ~ Steve Ballmer

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up. ~ Cornel West

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great. ~ Damien Hirst

This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there's always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed. ~ Lemony Snicket

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. ~ Elon Musk

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board. ~ Evan Williams

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people! ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' ~ Michael Phelps

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive ... we want to feel the rapture of being alive ~ Joseph Campbell

We believe the future come from a dream, no matter who or where, can make it happen. ~ Akbar De Wighar

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow. ~ Jon C. Madonna

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. ~ Herbert Benson

Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it. ~ Ricardo Legorreta

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. ~ Alex Ferguson

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! ~ Richard Feynman

He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is. ~ Patrick Carman

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. ~ Anne Lamott

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them. ~ Thomas Leonard

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ~ John Updike

How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting. ~ Alex Sanchez

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. ~ Thomas Mann

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. ~ Joel Osteen

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. ~ David Brin

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done. ~ Gilbert Highet

You shouldn't look too far to find people to care about or people who will care about you. Because if you stop looking, the people who do care will come looking for you. ~ Emma Blackery

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame. ~ Stephen Levine

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so. ~ Jakob Nielsen

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. ~ Francis Bacon

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them ~ Leo Tolstoy

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do ... and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you. ~ Leo Tolstoy

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about. ~ Shane Claiborne

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting ~ Amish Tripathi

The only way to keep a friend is let go his stupid faults, and keep his silly love for you, with a bushel full of salt. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get
people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep ... ~ John Muir

Throughout life, people will try to shake your faith in yourself. When this happens, remind yourself that the only way they can succeed is if you allow it. When you walk down the street of life, always hold your head high and keep walking. Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have. ~ Sherry Argov

Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives. ~ Hal Elrod

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction ~ Oprah Winfrey

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. ~ E. E. Cummings

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. ~ Dream Hampton

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. ~ Kristin Hannah

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. ~ Irving Stone

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come. ~ Anonymous

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most. ~ Tim Ferriss

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. ~ Helen Gurley Brown

When we meet beautiful people, what we see on the outside doesn't always reflect what's on the inside ~ Lori Hatcher

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. ~ Chanakya

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. ~ T.H. White

People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else. ~ Tony Robbins

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once. ~ Po Bronson

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television. ~ Chaz Bono

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. ~ Lao-Tzu

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~ Sri Aurobindo

The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall. ~ Tommy Cotton

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling. ~ Terry Pratchett

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. ~ Warren Bennis

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people. ~ Maggie Scarf

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts. ~ Rudolfo Anaya

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person ~ Ernie J Zelinski

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine. ~ Sheryl Crow

I buy when other people are selling. ~ J. Paul Getty

People have one thing in common; they are all different. ~ Robert Zend