P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich
“People regard art too highly, and history not enough”
Source: The 158-Pound Marriage
“People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many opportunities in life.”
“People regret uncovering of their sins more than their part in the sins.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not!”
“People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.”
“People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.”
“People relate to life being challenging and hard, and still trying to keep a positive attitude and keep going. If you're alone, there's nothing wrong with that. That's fine. But, finding the right person is something that you would really like and hope for.”
“People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.”
“People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.”
“People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.”
“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays
“People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!”
“People remember more of how you walk instead of what you talk.”
“People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings.”
“People remember us, think of us, and speak of us for how we make them feel.”
“People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.”
“People renowned for villainy and virtue may come from the same stock.”
Source: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
“People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.”
“People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.”
“People reply in a lot of ways when they learn a loved one has died. “I’m sorry for your loss” is the most prevalent, followed by, “You must miss them.”
But the truth is that they’re not sorry. And the hurt doesn’t lessen just because they apologize or even acknowledge the pain. And when they try to give advice—like the fact that time heals all, and you’ll feel better, just give it a while—they’re wrong. It will always hurt so fucking much, it just won’t hurt as often.”
Source: Midnight Kisses
“People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.”
“People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.”
“People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.”
“People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.”
“People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say.”
“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
Source: Lexicon
“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.”
“People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.”
“People resonate madness with voices that only they can hear. A man claims to have done it because his mind told him that there would be unthinkable agony less he doesn't. Perhaps, those voices bear more wits than the notion of their own decisions being read aloud. They're professing it because they were told.” (The Latent Identities Of Darwin)”
“People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.”
“People respect nonfiction but they read novels.”
“People respect one's integrity not their going along with the crowd just to reap a personal benefit.”
“People respect power, and it comes in many forms, Krav Maga is power, and people will respect you for knowing it”
“People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.”
“People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.”
“People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.”
“People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.”
“People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.”
“People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.”
Source: Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
“People respond differently to the same image and put on what they want or hope or feel onto that image.”
“People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?”
“People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.”
“People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.”
“People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job or may not try to find one as quickly as they would without the benefit.”
“People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood.”
Source: And I Darken