Inspirational People Quotes
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.
Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.
