People Quotes

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.