People Quotes - Page 1212

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people.

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

I like people too much or not at all.

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in caring connection--encouraging, consoling, or appreciating--I feel the twin pleasures of clarity and goodness. It doesn't matter if the connection I feel is to myself or a person I know or people I don't know or even the whole world. The lively impulse of caring is what counts. [p. 20]

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.