People Quotes - Page 324

This election [in 2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.

Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.

You add value to people when you value them.

Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it, as the most sacred of all our civil and social duties... It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

You have to give people something to dream on.