People Quotes

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

~ Steve Jobs

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

~ Karen Armstrong

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

~ Do Won Chang

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

~ David Ben-Gurion

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

~ Thomas S. Monson

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

~ Martin Luther

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

~ Mark Batterson

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.

~ Tim Tebow

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

~ Amy Grant

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

~ Steve Jobs

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

~ Joe Garcia

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

~ Eric Schlosser

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

~ Richard Linklater

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

~ Faran Tahir

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

~ C. S. Lewis

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

~ Donald Wuerl

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

~ Alice Walker

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

~ Vivienne Westwood

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

~ Anne Lamott

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

~ William Shakespeare

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

~ Al Franken

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

~ Sam Harris

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

~ Rick Warren

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

~ Martha Gellhorn

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

~ Jim Wallis

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

~ Garth Ennis

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

~ John Woolman

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

~ Matthew Scully

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

~ Horst Koehler

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

~ Christopher Gadsden

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

~ Walt Disney

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

~ Steve Jobs

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

~ Charles Eames

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

~ Douglas Adams