Best People Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I try to speak in a way that people can understand.”

“As I told you," he said patiently, "I'm a student of sociology, which is the science of human society." There wasn't any point in telling her that the course was actually criminology. That might be offensive. There didn't seem to be much point in telling her anything, for that matter.”

“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms - up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare.”

“Tack wagons stock bandages, saddles, medication, leg paints, sweats, freezes, bowie clay, sheet cotton, vet wrap. You live at the track, your life is full. You don’t have time to go shopping at the mall. You lose touch with the outside. Things change. You don’t hear about world news unless something major happens, because you’re in your own world and you have enough news.⁠”

“The ageing, oppressive, authoritarian dictator tends to forget one axiomatic truth; the nation and the people have time, he does not.”

“Genuine people are scarce these days...”

“Understanding your presence, what time we are in and what is about to come .Will make you understand why things are happening the way they are happening. Every decision now is shaped on what is about to come.”

“Smart people know when it is a good time to stop.”

“I’ve studied History all my life, and the one thing I’ve learned for certain I’d that you can’t stand against it. It’s like a river in a flood, and we are just swept along in it. The big people might try to swim against the current for a time, but little people like us, the best we can hope for is to keep our heads above the water for as long as we can.”

“It seems interesting and annoying at the same Time that provocative People are almost always capable of whitewashing themselves (temporarily) through Excuses... They don't escape Self-Betrayal.”

“There are so many people now who aren’t people anymore.”

“You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to”

“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into history. A hundred years from now, I will be free. I will have forgotten their names and faces, and the struggles they have will not matter. Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.”

“For some reason people have developed a liking for only one sort of transformation. They are fond of increase and development, but not decrease and disintegration. They prefer ripening to decay. They like things to be younger and younger, more and more juicy, fresh and unripe; they like things that are not yet fully moulded, still a bit angular; driven by a powerful spring of potential, what might still happen, always the moment before, never after.”

“Love will take you where you don’t belong.”

“Time is of essence because sometimes damage control can turn into a never ending nightmare.”

“Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives”

“Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them”

“You must be able to bring relevance to people”

“You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ”

“Locate the needs of the people and find out how best you can help them before bringing them to Christ”

“Dicono che due particelle possono avere un legame così forte da cambiare direzione nello stesso istante, a un milione di chilometri di distanza. Una danza cosmica che supera il tempo e lo spazio. Non sono abbastanza intelligente da sapere se è vero. Ma mi piace pensare che ogni momento possa essere così intrecciato, così unito per sempre a un altro che il tempo e lo spazio perdono di importanza. Nessun inizio e nessuna fine, solo due punti di una lunga orbita che fanno continuamente ritorno.”

“The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is”

“You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life”

“the tired sunsets and the tired”

“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")”

“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!”

“The reason I don’t care about the approval and acknowledgment of my batchmates and colleagues is that most of them are basically losers. They will latch on to anyone famous in their circles, who can help them get jobs or with their business. They derive their importance and identities through association. These very people will latch on to me for the same, once the time comes. In short, they are irrelevant flies to me, looking for a turd to sit on. Once I become a piece of turd, the flies will come. A turd doesn’t care about the flies.”

“Great people - "Give it the best shot.”

“People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.”

“Other people's grief is sweet; success is not joy.”

“The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.”

“Belief is the main ingredient that fuels the person’s ability to succeed.”

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.”

“We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.”

“Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.”

“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”

“Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не научатся жить на этом.”

“Don’t just bring religion to people but also change their value system”

“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”

“The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.”

“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?”

“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.”

“Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?”

“Language is the key to the heart of people.”

“If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.”

“Don’t lower your standards to make things work. This isn’t about extending favors because we’re not at a kid’s birthday party.”

“When the right people are around you, there will be no bandwidth for disrespect, resource mismanagement and enabling of degenerate ideas. The right people will hold you accountable for your contribution.”

“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.”

“Compassion has a time and place. Excessive empathy eradicates common sense and removes accountability.”

“Everyone is the right person for the right person.”

“You see people for who they are when you don't rely on them. Think about it.”

“The Organization is convinced that when people get to know each other as human beings instead of as symbols or statistics, a human relationship—carrying with it a full constellation of human attitudes—will inevitably result. It would seem that this point is so patent that it is unnecessary to elaborate, and yet, as with many fundamental precepts, it is so obvious that while we talk about it we completely overlook its significance for practical purposes.”

“Maybe it's impossible to find everything you want in one person. Maybe everyone in your life gives you certain things you need. And your friends give you the rest of what you can't get from your boyfriend.”

“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.”

“Real people are over there," he said, pointing to the museum. "And they're messy, imperfect, odd, sometimes infuriating, and at other times completely brilliant. But you'll never find real people in that nice, tidy concept you've built for yourself in your mind. You have to get out and join them.”

“There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.”

“We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people.”

“Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn’t exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.”

“In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen.”

“My life is replete with imperfections, which is why it is perfect in the first place.”

“Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.”

“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”

“Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life”

“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”

“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

“It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

“I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.”

“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”

“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”

“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.”

“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

“They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.”

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”

“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”

“All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.”

“Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.”

“Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.”

“When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.”

“Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.”

“With Every Breath We Take”

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

“Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.”

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.”

“There is no such thing as “too late” when you still have breath, voice, or courage. Time isn’t what saves the world. People are.”

“Rafe made people find something in themselves...(he) made me dream, he saw what I could hope to be, and helped me hope it. He did that to everyone he knew - especially the ones he knew the best." - Danny”

“I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.”

“Remember to forgive people along the way”

“Some people spend their whole lives looking for a four-leaf clover. Some just gaze.”

“Now, look, since when did you think being good meant being happy?”

“Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side.”

“كل إنسان يحاول أن يكون أسعد من الآخرين .. والصعوبة هي أننا نبالغ في تقدير سعادة الآخرين”

“No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people,”

“God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.”

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?”

“Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.”

“Your happiness is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of people around you! You matter; others also matter! Live life so well!”