M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people who want to give you a ‘piece of their mind’ don’t have a piece to spare.”
“Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.”
“Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Most people who win the lottery are exactly as they were prior within a few years if they are not worse off. The fiscal management skills that lead one to give over daily money for scratch-offs will also cause the new money to vanish.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards”
“Most people who work for themselves have achieved work-life imbalance.”
“Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.”
“Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.”
“Most people who yell at children, or shame them for making a mistake, would never yell at or shame someone at work for making a mistake.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so.”
“Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all.”
“Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free.”
Source: Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure
“Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives. Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an anything seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes".”
“Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant.”
“Most people will change, weather it's for the good or bad”
“Most people will choose to change you for telling the truth about their bad ways. Instead of choosing to change their bad ways. They forget that the truth doesn’t hurt them as much as the bad things they do.”
“Most people will choose to defend someone. Justifying someone’s wrongdoing, behavior, or acts, not that they care about that someone or that someone is right but being misjudged, no it is because they are also doing the same things. Just as they have not been caught or exposed, they are defending their bad actions, wrong behavior, or bad choices, not caring about the person. They want whatever wrong they’re doing to be accepted and seen as right. So, when their time to be exposed comes, you won’t judge them. Nobody cares unless it is beneficiary.”
“Most people will do the right thing; if they can afford too.”
Source: 10 Commandments on Women...and Counting
“Most people will label you. If they don’t get the response they want from you, they may become angry or resentful. They might hate you if they can’t manipulate, guilt-trip, or control you. It has nothing to do with what you did or didn’t do, or who you are as a person. It’s about them believing they have power over you, they are entitled, and are expecting you to do whatever they want.”
“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”
“Most people will live in their own shit if they have enough time or money.”
Source: In Limbo
“Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.”
“Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.”
“Most people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else, or someone they are not.”
“Most people will not be persuaded to become Christians except in their "heart language.”
Source: Why They Left: Listening to Those Who Have Left Churches of Christ
“Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.”
Source: Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success
“Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.”
“Most people will passively do exactly what they did last year.Whatever you do, don’t let that person be you.”
“Most people will passively do today, this week, this month this year...exactly what they did yesterday, last week, last month, last year. Whatever you do, don’t let that person be you.”
“Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.”
“Most people will say that this story which I told "It's not a happy"... doesn't exist, but sorry it exist. I made in normal age, like 10 or 14 years old to can be saw the drama, if it was baybe, the baybe will cry, won't it?
The age which I put the girl was the perfect, teenager in the same time, mother which is lost which will mean she has died... her father with a strange past still a mystery.”
Source: It's not a happy
“Most people will say, We had no idea she was on drugs. And it’s not because they’re stupid. It’s because the changes are subtle, the universe is parallel, you speak a little too quickly, your voice is more shrieky, you seem not to be paying attention, you stare too long and too hard at the wall or some detail in the Persian rug. Most people can’t tell that’s a problem. Most people have their own problems.
It’s the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul—to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing. They feel it. It hurts them. It kills them.”
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.”
“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.”
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.”
“Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.”
“Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for suffering - most people want to drug it, escape it, divorce it; do anything but live with it.”
“Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.”
Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.”
“Most people with COVID-19 pick up some damage from it. It may not be apparent, but it is there.”
“Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.”
“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Most people with whom I have discussed pigeons hold them in low esteem. I have history with pigeons, or perhaps I would not even have noticed the small creature. The great gentleness I have found seems to have escaped most people’s notice. Of course, like most humans, I did not recognize their true worth at all until I got to know one very well.”
Source: Sanctuary - Exploring the Magical World of Birds
“Most people won't bat an eyelid when they hear about PFAS in rainwater.
Why?
Because they will tell you that they drink bottled water.
That's when you tell them that rainwater waters their flowers, their vegetables, their livestock, our waterways and rivers.
We eat the vegetables. We consume the livestock. We fry the fish and swim in the waterways & oceans.
Rainwater goes everywhere and douses everything in moisture.
It's already in our blood streams and in our lungs and even if you tried to stop breathing & ingesting it, we couldn't because it's everywhere.
A half life of 3-4 years may not be a long period of time, but how do you stop what you can't?”
“Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.”
“Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.”
“Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.”
“Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.”
“Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.”
“Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.”