M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.”
Source: Grimspace
“Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.”
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.”
Source: The Magicians: A Novel
“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.”
“Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west
“Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true.”
“Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true.”
Source: How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“Most people chase money. Visionaries multiply value.”
“Most people chase success. Aligned people attract it.”
Source: Alignment Is The Key: Mastering The 8 Timeless Principles of Enduring Success
“Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!”
“Most people choose likes, retweets, comments, impressions, engagement and content over their life, health, mentality, dignity, relationship, friendship, and sanity. They are willing to do and say anything for impressions. They start by harming others first, then they end up harming themselves by what they do or say. Choose to use social media responsibly and don’t be used by social media.”
“Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006
“Most people choose the music they listen to, the books the read, and the films they watch because of some event which has lately taken place in their own lives. People who are in love listen to love songs, people who are sad listen to sad songs, people who are angry listen to angry songs. Love songs are instructive for the young man in love because they teach him how to think about love and how to assign meaning to the events which occur in a romance. Sad songs teach sad people what their sadness is. Joyful songs instruct listeners on the activities and sentiments that are appropriate to joyful people. Mediocre art asks little of us, though, and so mediocrity trains hearts to shallowness, simplicity, and selfishness. In much the same way that an unpracticed, unused body will wither, bloat, and become incapable of otherwise normal tasks, so will the unpracticed and unused soul.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Most people choose to be hurt and killed by something they have power to avoid, because of their ego, arrogance and wanting to prove a point. They choose to put themselves in harms way. Always choose safety, when it comes to your life. Be wise and choose to avoid arguments, fights, conflicts, people, places , situations or doing things that can get you killed or hurt.”
“Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.”
“Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.”
“most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.”
“Most people coming out of a war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes, for a time, all others seem alien and frivolous. Friends are glad to see you again, but you know immediately that most of them have put you to one side, and while it is easy enough to say that you should have known that before, most of us don't, and it is painful. You are face to face with what will happen to you after death.”
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.”
“Most people complete their formal education without ever learning how money actually works.”
Source: Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
“Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.”
“Most people confuse divinity with magic, but here is the reality of the matter - there is no magical or extraterrestrial divinity involved in the affairs of the human world - the divinity that can make any difference in our world is the divinity that we hold in our heart - the divinity which is commonly known as humanity. You may attend a thousand churches and yet die as a divine vacuum, but one who does everything in their power to help others with or without any special inclination for the church, is the very embodiment of divinity.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has nothing to do with the present moment itself. If you were to suddenly die the present moment would remain. The problem occurs when we attach in our minds with what is happening to "us" presently. This is simply a mental construct that we have created ourselves. It is much like a grievance, either real or imagined. If we attach to grievances we are constantly inflicting suffering on ourselves, not the other party.”
“Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.”
Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps
“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
Source: How to Play the Game of Life
“Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.”
“Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”
“Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.”
Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“Most people considered power and weakness opposites, but Grayson had learned early in life that the real opposite of weakness was control.”
Source: The Brothers Hawthorne
“Most people consume information passively-whatever they're being fed. They're being fed Russian television, which tells them that in the 90s there was a terrible catastrophe, that before that life had been all right, and then when Putin came many people say, "I've never lived as well as I'm living under Putin." That's true-there has never been such a level of affluence. But now, it looks like people will have to tighten their belts, and some are already having doubts.”
“Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.”
Source: Full Ride
“Most people couple within their own height range- short couples are 8 percent apart, midsize couples are 8 percent apart. The exception is talls. Tall women, meanwhile, date men who are approximately the same size, 0 to 5 percent taller; extremely tall women go for men 0 to 2 percent taller. Tall men are kids in a candy store, dating whomever they want.”
Source: The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
“Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together”
Source: A Bright New Morning: An American Story
“Most people define "street smarts" as some innate ability to make savvy decisions, or one that has developed as a result of a person being confronted with very challenging circumstances in the past. I think another common term that is used is one who has amazing "business acumen." But, whatever we call it, it is always associated with some mysterious ability, only a few possess, that allow them to make better decisions than the rest of us.”
“Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.”
“Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.”
“Most people define themselves by the excuses they make about why they cannot be who they want to be or do what they truly want to do.”
“Most people define themselves by this finite body, but you’re not a finite body. Even under a microscope you’re an energy field. What we know about energy is this: You go to a quantum physicist and you say, “What creates the world?” And he or she willsay, “Energy.” Well, describe energy. “OK, it can never be created or destroyed, it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed always exists, it’s
moving into form, through form and out of form.” You go to a theologian and ask the question, “What created the Universe?” And he or she willsay, “God.” OK, describe God. “Always was and always has been, never can be created or destroyed, all that ever was, always will be, always moving into form, through form and out of form.” You see, it’s the same description, just different terminology.”
“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'”
“Most people desire comfort and pleasure.”
“Most people desire to live in comfort but do not work to earn that comfort”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.”
Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979
“Most people didn't appreciate the simple things, the gifts of true freedom. The feel of the cold air snapping at your exposed skin, filling you with vivacity. The sight of nature thrumming with life, the rich colors of the sunsets, birds chirping in the sky.
But in this case, gunfire as well.”
Source: Blood Lands
“Most people didn't realise there was a world of difference between being touched and touching.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“Most people didn’t see the beauty behind the everyday, didn’t enjoy the simple pleasures in life, didn’t stop and smell the roses … and just because these phrases were considered platitudes didn’t make them any less true. For you could belittle truth, lambaste it, deny its existence, but truth would always still be there, as unconcerned as the inexorably flowing Mississippi.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.”
Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.”
“Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.”
“Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.”
“Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.”