People Quotes

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I've heard people say, 'I love how the characters never say what they're really thinking, and I love how things are so open-ended and you just never know what's going to happen.' Do you know what I mean? So it's an opinion, you know? I've heard very few, if any criticisms of the show, and I think that it obviously is working, whatever we're doing.

I meet with people all day long.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.