Bob Greene Quotes

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

In life, we have either reasons or results

To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.