People Quotes

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

I love people, and the hustle.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

What is the city but the people?

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.