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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Convention.
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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 often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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