The People Quotes
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
I mean there are a bunch of people who I’ve heard worship Adolf Hitler who don’t like me because I don’t think Jews have 14 inch fangs and drink blood and sneak around in bushes.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.
People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.
I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.
Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.
The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
