Best Human Nature Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”

“There is NO Secret to success, except working for it honestly and truthfully. Rest everything is called Cheating.”

“Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timings, the contributions of others, the teachers who helped us along the way, the whims of the public in need of something new. Our tendency is to forget all of this and imagine that any success stems from our superior self.”

“But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.”

“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”

“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”

“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.”

“Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.”

“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.”

“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that”

“Everyone has their coping mechanisms, Mom. Some hide behind silk scarves and boutique cafés. Others stick to sarcasm.”

“It’s better to be alone than with someone who drags you down. Or worse — pretends to lift you up, just to drop you from higher up.”

“We live in a world where touch is both desperately needed and heavily stigmatized.”

“Now, imagine the opposite: a world where touch is sacred. Where every hug, every handshake, every gentle gesture carries meaning and care.”

“Touch is the first language we learn and the last one we forget.”

“And so perhaps it was entirely possible - common, even - for you to look into the eyes of someone you'd been falling in love with, someone you had spent every waking moment with, whose breathing sounded as familiar as your own - and fail to recognize them at all.”

“The quiet moments between people often reveal more than their conversations.”

“She loved when he just rambled, effortlessly profound, without an ounce of self-consciousness. She loved seeing how he processed the world; hearing his messiest, unformed thoughts.”

“Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.”

“Silence is rarely empty. It usually carries the words we were afraid to say.”

“This is what Danny loves about her. She is so infinitely astounded by the world.”

“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”

“The connection that brings us closer to others is the same that can distance us from ourselves...”

“The crisis enters the political scene like the glove that fits on a mime's hand, who, without color and without sound, creates drama and laughter at a traffic light.”

“People rarely fear loneliness. What they truly fear is being fully seen.”

“The most frightening thing about love is the appearance of “we.” For it means only one thing: the “I” has already been forgotten.”

“You can trust everyone to be human, with all the quirks and inconsistencies we humans display, including disloyalty, dishonesty and downright treachery. We are all capable of the entire range of human behavior, given the circumstances, from absolute saintliness to abject depravity. Trusting someone to limit their sphere of action to one narrow band on the spectrum is idealistic and will inevitably lead to disappointment.”

“With family you tend to take for granted the fact that they’ll always be there and that you’ll figure out how to get along somehow. [...] But it doesn’t work that way. You don’t have a family. You make a family.”

“Here's what they don't tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.”

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

“Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.”

“We are inherently lovable; we are inherently holy; we are inherently creative, and people can’t take that away from us. It’s who we are.”

“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”

“One always has hope for human nature”

“Believing that it is in the human nature to seek truth more than it seeks hope and alleviation, because a few individuals were staunch truth-seekers, is to believe that, because parrots can speak, it is in the very nature of birds to speak in human language!”

“To scream is to believe there is someone out there who cares.”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“What possesses the poor souls? Why this mad desire”

“Happiness shared is happiness human,”

“Maybe happiness only exists in fragments. Maybe it is only the absence of grief.”

“يخيل لأحدنا أنه سوف يبلغ إكتفاءً تاماً إذا توافرت لديه بعض حاجات معينة: فهو يتصور مثلًا القصر الذهبي والحديقة الغنّاء، والزوجة الجميلة والسيارة الفارهة والرزق الموفر، فيعتقد أنه سيكون سعيدًا بذلك فلا يحتاج إلى شيء آخر سواه.”

“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”

“IN THE HANDS OF MAN”

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”

“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”

“Some people want you to grow — but only with them.”

“What are humans?’ Quillo asked. Lonī gave it some thought. He had not figured humans out fully, despite his years on earth. ‘The humans I have seen? Well, those are two-legged, feeble animals. They eat even if they are not hungry, and take up more space than they need. Not very friendly. We don’t mingle.”

“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”

“I believed my love would be reciprocated because it was pure. But it wasn’t. Reaction to every action? It doesn’t work that way with a human heart. Human mind resembles the quantum world. Always uncertain. Beyond any explanation.”

“Only an arrogant man can sense arrogance in others.”

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”

“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”

“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”

“After 49 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.”

“Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz.”

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

“We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.”

“Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”

“Love is the insurrection of the body; it is the circumcision of modesty, the assassination of dogma, the rebirth of Moksha.”

“The most dangerous man is not the one who hates you, but the one who has realized you are no longer a threat.”

“Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed”

“Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.”

“We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.”

“Man is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.”

“You know what they say?” Nonna paused, “The character of the Venetian people is like the tide.”

“A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”

“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”

“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.”

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”

“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”

“You can have faith in God or gods. You can have faith in people. But these aren't separate choices—when humans claim to speak for the divine, they inevitably speak from their own understanding, their own limitations, and their own agenda.”

“The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.”

“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;”

“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.”

“The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open - only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth.”

“Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. So why is man your god, and not the Creator?”

“When something terrible happens, people respond to it in two ways. Either they lose their faith in God altogether, or they start believing in him even more.”

“Darwinism teaches that whatever serves no purpose gradually perishes. The tail disappeared long ago; it seems that in some individuals, the brain has now taken an extended leave.”

“Language allows us to communicate ideas and feelings that are not quite our own.”

“You cannot be solved. You can only be understood”

“We always find it easier to define people by what they mean to others rather than who they are alone.”

“Life does not dole out suffering in equal rations, but knowing that makes the capriciousness of the universe no less painful.”

“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”

“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time he does not want really to know it? May not human life on this earth be a kind of frozen fear of man at what he could possibly be? And every move he makes might not these moves be just to hide this awful fact? To twist it into something which he feels would make him rest and breathe a little easier? What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man...”

“Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.”

“Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.”

“We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.”

“A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.”

“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”