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Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
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.
- The Buddha
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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