M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.”
“Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.”
“Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.”
“Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry.”
“Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
“Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.”
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Most people do kiss and tell; most of them just don’t tell many people.”
“Most people do most things because most people do.”
“Most people do no want their perceptions challenged or world views rocked. When an excuse to dismiss comes along, which allows them to maintain unaltered the view that's served them thus far, more often than not, they will take it.”
Source: Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories
“Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.”
“Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.”
“Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.”
“Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.”
Source: Close to Home
“Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.”
“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”
Source: Issawi's laws of social motion
“Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old.”
“Most people do not have access to medication.”
“Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Most people do not know at all how beautiful the world is and how much magnificence is revealed in the tiniest things, in some flower, in a stone, in tree bark, or in a birch leaf. (Letters on Life)”
“Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Most people do not know, or cannot accept what they are, and that this present reality is all that there is. The past is just a memory, and the future merely an expectation. There is only one continuous present moment, the now.
This explains concepts such as religion, the afterlife, and reincarnation.
It explains why women butcher their bodies, with cosmetic surgery and breast implants.
It also explains why people make unrealistic promises when they marry, though they are not swans, are not biologically monogamous.
They deny primal instincts, such as violence, hate, and war, naturally exist inside them. For they are, the great pretenders.”
“Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything goes wrong. Can you hold on, can you keep pushing or do you quit?”
“Most people do not know what epidemiology is or how it contributes to the health of our society. This fact is somewhat paradoxical, given that epidemiology pervades oir lives.”
“Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account”
“Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.”
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.”
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.”
“Most people do not need more space, they need less stuff.”
Source: Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
“Most people do not need more space; they need less stuff, combined with a rethink of the space they do have.”
Source: Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
“Most people do not pray; they only beg.”
“Most people do not put much effort into maintaining their bodies properly, but the body is the easiest and most elemental aspect of life to manage and master. Mastery of the physical elements leads to mastery of the mental and energetic elements.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“Most people do not realize how much damage a child that has been raised in a broken home may have.”
“Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.”
“Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west
“Most people do not realize the aftermath of a COVID infection can be like a ticking time bomb! It is going to kill a lot of people before their retirement age.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”
“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”
“Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life”
“Most people do not think; they only repeat what was thought before them. To truly think is to break the cycle and create anew.”
Source: If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.
“Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.”
“Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.”
“Most people do their best to look like a democrat. But the truth is that they are not democrats by nature, they are true imitators, because democracy has come into fashion in modern civilization.”
“Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.”
“Most people doing transformative justice work didn't get into it because we thought it would be a random, fun thing to do. We do it because we're survivors, or the people closest to us are. We care about survivors; we know what it's like to survive brutal shit, often alone. We want to change the world so this stuff never happens again.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year