M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.”
“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”
“Most people want, need, and respond positively to gestures of kindness and goodness. This universal friendliness connects humanity.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
“Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
Source: Minority Report
“Most people want something to happen all the time. That is because they are not at peace. A shepherd, on the other hand, although vigilant, must be supremely patient, and he must be at peace with himself. That is why some of the greatest teachers and prophets were shepherds. You are restless because you are not at peace with yourself. A fire is restless. It rages and spreads, burning everything in its path. Eventually, it burns out and dies down as fast as it had started. Be tranquil as a tree. When the wind blows, swing with it; when the birds sing, enjoy the song; watch the sheep eat contently at your feet.”
Source: Djinns & Kings: The Curse of Zoa
“Most people want their prayers to end up being answered, so they can finally start praying new prayers.”
“Most people want their representatives to get something done.”
“Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.”
“Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.”
“Most people want to be accepted without query. They feel there is nothing wrong with their character. They like causing trouble, but then feel aggravated when you cause the same kind of trouble.”
Source: The Infinity Sign
“Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.”
“Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
“Most people want to be respected, loved, appreciated and have their opinions, choices, and feelings valued and acknowledged , yet they often choose not to respect others, nor value or acknowledge other people's choices, opinions, or feelings. They deliberately provoke others and seek attention by engaging in wrong or harmful behavior.”
“Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor”
“Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.”
“Most people want to be told the truth … most of the time.”
“Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.”
“Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.”
“Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.”
“Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.”
“Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.”
“Most people wear clothing that is too big or too small for them. And "oversized" is the downfall for most of us. We have to be careful that we don't look like we're slipcovered!”
“Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.”
“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.”
“Most people were good, intelligent, responsible human beings struggling to live decent, useful lives. Why was it so many of them found that almost impossible? Was it because there were just no rules anymore, people making them us as the went along? From her own bitter experience, she saw that most good people were simply lost, bobbing around like castaways in a moral wasteland flooded with debris and ugliness, waiting to be rescued and placed on solid ground.”
Source: An Unorthodox Match
“Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.”
“Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.”
“Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.”
Source: Hell Fire: A Corine Solomon Novel
“Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. When we began working on this book, the poster boy for "tenacious clinging to a discredited belief" was George W. Bush. Bush was wrong in his claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, he was wrong in claiming that Saddam was linked with Al Qaeda, he was wrong in predicting that Iraqis would be dancing joyfully in the streets to receive the American soldiers, he was wrong in predicting that the conflict would be over quickly, he was wrong in his gross underestimate of the financial cost of the war, and he was most famously wrong in his photo-op speech six weeks after the invasion began, when he announced (under a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED) that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.”
“Most people, when they hear 'No-mind', think it means to become unfeeling, like a rock or a tree. [...] No-mind means not to fix the mind anywhere.”
Source: Zen and the Bible
“Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.”
“Most people which died poor or rich or other types of people knew something they written it and in the near future when they revive they will somehow reach to this knowledge and will start looking from this view...”
“Most people who approach true spiritual mastery are not interested in being leaders. At the same time, there are people who are highly visible when, rather than being true masters of spirituality and metaphysics, they are merely exhibiting the symptoms of an extroverted personality.”
Source: The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness
“Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.”
“Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.”
“Most people who are global achievers were once victims of greater circumstances than yours, but they had one word to sum it up; "They never give up!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.”
“Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.”
“Most people who are on a spiritual path realize their thoughts are crucial to their experiences. If you have negative thoughts, you draw and attract negative experiences to yourself. But knowing that and ruling your behavior by it can seem like two different things.”
“Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.”
“Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.”
“Most people who are struck by lightning learn to keep their heads down. It’s only people like you who grit your teeth and then come out again, refusing to cower. That’s what I can’t understand about you. You’ve been struck by lightning, again and again, and still you stand up. I don’t see how you are possible.”
“Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.”
“Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.”