Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about People
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.