M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people don't actually live life, for they live in the assumption of life.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Most people don't change, do they?" He'd stopped suddenly, his hands in his pockets, staring at a motorcar as it chugged past. "No matter what happens to them. No matter what they go through. They do everything they can to preserve their prejudices. Or their ambitions, even if those ambitions were cast when they were quite young and foolish. This is the business of living, as I once described it, isn't it? To explain away new experiences with old beliefs.”
Source: The Passion of Cleopatra
“Most people don’t consider happiness as an important goal of life because happiness is an internal feeling and not an external achievement. Most people wish to achieve things that are discernible and acknowledged by the world as an achievement. They want success, power, fame, wealth—things that can be quantified as accomplishments. Happiness simply does not fit in this bill. Hence, many people don’t consider happiness as an achievement.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Most people don't enjoy working or what they do, but they do what they have to do earn a living. You agreeing on something because of your expectations. If you expectations are not met . It doesn't mean you didn't consent to it.
Just because you don't enjoy it, it doesn't mean you didn't consent to it. Because you are regretting later. It doesn't mean you didn't agree to it. If you can't deal with your own conscience or actions. You don't have to make it their fault.”
“Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails.”
Source: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
“Most people don't even understand whether they are angry or sad.”
“Most people don't even want to know who they are anymore. They just want to make enough money to make someone love them.”
“Most people don’t fail because they aim too high. They fail because they aim too low and hit the target.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“Most people don’t fail because they lack strength.
They fail because they don’t realize what the situation is asking of them.”
“Most people don't feel the effects of the sun until it disappear.”
“Most people don't feel the effects of the sun until it disappears.”
“Most people don’t get their soul mates in their designated lifetime or if ever they do, they let them go. It doesn’t matter to me who you are, who you love, as long as they love you back. That is what’s important. The world seems to have forgotten that and have conducted themselves all based on the concept of love that is both selfish, misguided and outdated. And if the world saw what we see, things would be a whole lot better.”
Source: #StrangeLit: Darkest Dreams
“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really.”
“Most people don’t have a money problem—they have a decision-making problem.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.”
Source: Soledad
“Most people don't have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes.
Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail - it doesn't connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy.”
Source: Mastery
“Most people don't know how to find the answers, so here how I do it. I just read a book or a film about the topic and I found a lot”
“Most people don’t know how to lose weight. They try different diets with good intentions and hope. They fail. They try again and fail. Then they often give up and return to eating for satisfaction and fulfillment.
Why have so many failed? They’ve tried cutting out sweets. That helps, but it’s only part of the cause of their weight gain. They’ve tried counting calories. That’s burdensome and, again, only part of the story. They’ve failed because no one has ever told them, in clear, everyday terms, how we all gain and lose weight.”
“Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries.”
Source: The Secret of a Heart Note
“Most people don't know that you can learn to choose your thoughts, beleifs and mindset, then bridge yourself into connection with Source (Love) which is chilling within each of us for eternity.
The whole point of us coming here (I beleive), is to forget all of this, lose ourselves in ego delusion for the experience of rememberign and reconnecting to Source, creating the experience of Heaven on Earth.
Many of us came here specifically to 'wake up' and then anchor these ancient frequencies into the grid to hold a higher vibration on Earth through the (re)evolution of consciousness on Earth.”
“Most people don't know what they're blowing anyway -- they know what they've been buying. You offer them pure and they won't meet your price -- they say it's shit because it doesn't look like what they're used to. So you hit it with some borax and they pay your price. But that takes time. After you unload most of it at an honest price, then you can fuck around with what's left for the sucker trade.”
Source: Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
“Most people don't know what they want. Some people kind of know what they want. Successful people know what they want and don't take no for an answer.”
“Most people don’t lack courage.
They lack the belief that their voice matters.”
Source: Forward Talk: The Bold New Method For Getting Teams Unstuck
“Most people don't laugh so much while they're kissing." He grinned boyishly and tweaked her nose.
Belle tweaked his back. "They don't? How unfortunate for them.”
Source: Dancing at Midnight
“Most people don't learn because they'd rather die than learn the horrible truths that determine their fate.”
Source: They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War
“Most people don't listen to understand, they listen, and push in, to prove their point is RIGHT!”
Source: Tony Dovale's SoulShift - 1 Minute Wisdom Poetry & insights to transform your life.
“Most people don't need to be babied through business processes. Most often, what they need is a clear understanding of the objective and access to available resources. From there, they'll leverage their own creative capacity and skillets to ensure that the objective is accomplished.”
Source: Business Essentials
“Most people don’t realize that people who seem to have good luck often create it for themselves. They create it by focusing on the positive. Good luck comes from being in tune with what you desire, in tune with your destiny.”
Source: The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny
“Most people don't realize this, but every taste is related to a memory or an emotion. Flavors are part of a person's past, and are the translation of emotion into another language.”
Source: Pir-i Lezzet!
“Most people don’t really understand why live makes us vulnerable, or open. It’s because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.”
Source: Sex and Psychic Energy
“Most people don’t really understand why love makes us vulnerable, or open. It’s because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.”
Source: Sex and Psychic Energy
“Most people don't support you when you are struggling. They support people who are successful.”
“Most people don't think for themselves. They just regurgitate someone else's opinion and pass it off as their own.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said.
"You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and you're just you.”
Source: The Labors of Hercules Beal
“Most people don’t understand how mighty the power of touch is, how mighty a kind word can be, how important a listening ear is, or how giving an honest compliment can move the child who has not known those things, only watched them from afar. As insignificant as they can be, they have the power to change a life.”
“Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their lives.”
“Most people don’t want solution of their problem. When someone rants about their problem, imagine someone sitting in a cinema hall and ranting about the villain. They are fully engrossed in this endless movie since many births.”
“Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".”
“Most people don't believe in themselves.”
“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.”
“Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.”
“Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.”
“Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.”
Source: Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
“Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge”
“Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.”
“Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.”
“Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do - but if you know how and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief.”
“Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.”
“Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”