People Quotes - Page 58

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.

Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn't come with money and it doesn't come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That's having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That's having a life of success. That's what having a life of meaning is.

You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if you're rude to somebody in prison, you get killed.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

People protect what they love.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

Treat people the way you want to be treated. When they don't treat you back that way, react. React to everything.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.