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May you find great value in these Underneath quotes and sayings.
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology People
Perspective:
Do you always look at life from the same point-of-view?
Consider viewing a situation as another might view it.
Look from behind, underneath, from the distant heavens.
View the situation as someone of a different religion,
race, or nationality might view it.
Pretend you are an alien from a distant galaxy -
that should be good for a laugh.
Troubles only appear troubling to those close to them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
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)
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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)
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
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
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
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
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not seem to realize 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
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
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
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