People Quotes - Page 457

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

The problem is not gun possession; the problem is manufacturing guns - who's making these guns and how they gettin' out on the street? There shouldn't even be guns for us to possess. If there wasn't any, then it wouldn't be a problem. So we need to go to the source of the problem. They're making all these wars so they can make more weapons and sell them, and they wanna kill more people - they need population control,'cause people have to die in order for this world to continue. That's the government's goal right now.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Humanity can only improve as people improve. When you have improved your life, you can inspire those around you to want to improve their lives. Remember that a few in harmony with God's will are more powerful than multitudes out of harmony.