„About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.“

„You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.“

—  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American writer 1940

„it is true that you may fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all of the people all the time… dogs, on the other hand, with them all you need to do is flick your wrist and they run off looking for some stupid tennis ball.“

—  Darby Conley American cartoonist 1970

famous cat quotes
Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 114
Bucky Katt

„It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.“

—  Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005

„Some will love you. Some will hate you. Most won't care about you either way. This world is all Good vs. Evil. And I fight evil.“

—  Lupe Fiasco rapper 1982

Rules 2 Rule

„You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, книга The Notebook

Источник: The Notebook

„Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

„There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!“

—  Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943

„You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.“

—  Hilari Bell, книга Navohar

Источник: Navohar

„This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.“

—  Paulo Coelho, книга The Alchemist

Источник: The Alchemist

„What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.“

—  Fritz Leiber, книга The Wanderer

Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (p. 340).

„That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.“

—  Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

„Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket.“

—  Natsuki Takaya Manga artist 1973

Источник: Fruits Basket, Vol. 23

„You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.“

—  Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

This is probably the most famous of apparently apocryphal remarks attributed to Lincoln. Despite it being cited variously as from an 1856 speech, or a September 1858 speech in Clinton, Illinois, there are no known contemporary records or accounts substantiating that he ever made the statement. The earliest known appearance is October 29, 1886 in the Milwaukee Daily Journal http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html. It later appeared in the New York Times on August 26 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30817FF3E5413738DDDAF0A94D0405B8784F0D3 and August 27 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E15FF3E5413738DDDAE0A94D0405B8784F0D3, 1887. The saying was repeated several times in newspaper editorials later in 1887. In 1888 and, especially, 1889, the saying became commonplace, used in speeches, advertisements, and on portraits of Lincoln. In 1905 and later, there were attempts to find contemporaries of Lincoln who could recall Lincoln saying this. Historians have not, generally, found these accounts convincing. For more information see two articles in For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, "'You Can Fool All of the People' Lincoln Never Said That", by Thomas F. Schwartz ( V. 5, #4, Winter 2003, p. 1 http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Newsletters/5-4.pdf) and "A New Look at 'You Can Fool All of the People'" by David B. Parker ( V. 7, #3, Autumn 2005, p. 1 http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Newsletters/7-3.pdf); also the talk page. The statement has also sometimes been attributed to P. T. Barnum, although no references to this have been found from the nineteenth century.
Variants:
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can fool all the people some time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.
Disputed

„What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?“

—  Maggie O'Farrell British writer 1972

Источник: After You'd Gone

„Who do you love? If you love God, you should love people. If you don't love people, you don't love God. It's that simple.“

—  Craig Groeschel American priest 1967

It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)

„It's not to pretend you can do everything, but if people like you – in the sense of admiring or having respect for what you are trying to do – then they will understand the odd blemish. If people don't like you, and lack confidence in what you are trying to do, they won't forgive you anything.“

—  Alex Salmond Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland 1954

„If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.“

—  Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

„That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.“

—  Deb Caletti American writer 1963

„You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.“

—  Rick Riordan, книга The Throne of Fire

Источник: The Throne of Fire