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People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
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My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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