People Quotes - Page 618

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.

Education is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much faster because they could get a job, they could get money. Once people see that you improve your life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

The little grassroots people can change this world.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This is what made Crimean residents, the people who live there, think about their future and ask Russia for help. This is what guided our decision.

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.