It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.
People are living books. The real library of life is community.
How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.
We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.
Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.
No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.
Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.
If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.
Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.
Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.
People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.