109 Best "People" Quotes - Carefully Curated by Real People (-:
Welcome to our curated collection of great quotes about "people" -- with free shareable picture quotes -- for you to ponder and be inspired by.

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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

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I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

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I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
![Quote: It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. by author Oscar Wilde overlaid on photo of green mountain ]](https://discoverquotes.com/oscar-wilde/quote362271/quotepic25393328.jpg)
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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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.

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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

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My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

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It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.

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Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good Morning' at total strangers.

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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

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

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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that.

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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

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There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

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Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
