People Quotes: Inspirational and Thought-Provoking Words about Humanity

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

John Portman, Architect

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored"

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

Kathy Bates, Actress

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

Doug Coupland, Author

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Few people have the imagination for reality"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die"

Plato, Philosopher

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do"

Olin Miller, Writer

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"

Andrew Jackson, President

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit"

Dwight Morrow, Businessman

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people"

Confucius, Philosopher

"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

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