M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people expect survivors of this type of abuse to be extremely damaged and seriously disturbed individuals. Certainly most people around expect them to be in great need of psychiatric help... No matter what the survivor is in contact with a particular agency for, the assumption is quickly made that, because of the [ritual] abuse, there must be mental health problems of some kind present. Yet, this is not always the case.”
Source: Behind Enemy Lines
“Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.”
“Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.”
“Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.”
Source: Predatory Kill
“Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Most people fail because they confuse their gurus for their competitors.”
“Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.”
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
“Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.”
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
“Most people fail in their desire for change because they lack the personal motivation or inspiration to maintain the discipline necessary to affect change in their lives.”
“MOST PEOPLE FAIL NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF; BUT BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF ATTEMPT, ATTEMPT IS WHAT ONE NEEDS TO OVERCOME FAILURE. THIS FEAR LIMITS THEM TO DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DO, WHAT THEY MUST DO. INSTEAD OF CREATING A WALL OF EXCUSES, BREAK THE BARRIERS OF MIND AND OVERCOME FEAR.”
“Most people fail, not due to
lack of ability, but loss of stability.”
Source: Baat Jazbaat Ki/बात जज़्बात की : apni kuchh Nazmon aur Ghazlon ke zariye/अपनी कुछ नज़्मों और ग़ज़लों के ज़रिये
“Most people fail not necessarily because who they are, but whom they are with.”
“Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.”
“Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.”
“Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.”
Source: GIMP: The Story Behind the Star of Murderball
“Most people feared the darkness. Some people feared, more wisely, the things within the darkness.
Gabriel feared both, and with good reason. He walked anyway. That had always been his way. He had a complicated history with the woodlands of the world. He'd met his share of the Cyclops and the Circes that lurked within.
And the world never seemed to run out of monsters.”
Source: The Wake Up
“Most people feared what they were capable of doing, but I… I was starting to fear what I was capable of ignoring.”
Source: The Jasad Heir
“Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them.”
“Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.”
“Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.”
“Most people feel compelled to talk — even when they have nothing to say.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“Most people feel if they could only get enough money, then life would finally be enjoyable, but I can promise you it doesn't work that way.”
Source: Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
“Most people feel very strongly that Donald Trump is a threat to the nation. He must be defeated.”
“Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.”
“Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.”
Source: Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
“Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.”
“Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.”
“Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.”
“Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.”
“Most people focus on the wrong thing; They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it's all the hard parts - the sweat, the pain, the tears, the losses. You make the sacrifices anyway. You learn to enjoy them, or at least embrace them. In the end, it is the sacrifices that must fulfill you.”
Source: My Fight / Your Fight
“Most people follow the path that everyone before them has trodden. That’s the quick way to avoid being a genius. The genius, and the fool and madman (!), always create brand new paths, upon which no other person has ever set foot. Nothing is more depressing than the “role model” if that means copying someone else. That’s how to kill off genius. The genius is he who has no precedent. He doesn’t copy anyone. He goes beyond everyone else to unknown and unexplored places.”
Source: The Mathmos
“Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.”
“Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised.”
“Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.”
“Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.”
“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!”
Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy
“Most people get better when they face competition.”
“Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.”
“Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.”
“Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.”
“Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.”
“Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.”
“Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.”
“Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.”
“Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.”
“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.”