105 Inspiring Quotes From People

In a world overflowing with noise and distractions, the power of a simple quote can cut through the chaos, resonating with something deeper within us. Whether it's to spark motivation, instill wisdom, or offer solace during challenging times, the right words can serve as a guiding light. Our carefully curated collection of 105 inspiring quotes showcases the insights of visionaries, leaders, and thinkers from various walks of life. These quotes are not just words; they are timeless nuggets of wisdom, each holding the potential to inspire change and ignite passion. Join us as we explore these remarkable expressions of human thought and spirit, offering you a wellspring of inspiration to draw upon whenever you need it.

1. “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

2. “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!” - Charles M. Schulz

3. “This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me” - Emily Dickinson

4. “People are the most difficult thing in the world to change” - Gena Showalter

5. “It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.” - P.G. Wodehouse

6. “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.” - P.G. Wodehouse

7. “You dirty rat...” - James Cagney

8. “Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

9. “People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

10. “I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.” - Marilyn Manson

11. “People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.” - Paul David Tripp

12. “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.” - Will Rogers

13. “In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

14. “When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.” - Karl Lagerfeld

15. “People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.” - James McGregor

16. “IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?” - Akira Kurosawa

17. “A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.” - Isak Dinesen

18. “People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.” - Nicholas Sparks

19. “Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.” - Toba Beta

20. “Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.” - Joan Lowery Nixon

21. “I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.” - Orson Scott Card

22. “When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” - Paulo Coelho

23. “Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.” - Oscar Wilde

24. “Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.” - Ethan Black

25. “Two Kinds of PeopleThere are two kinds of people on earth today,Two kinds of people no more I say.Not the good or the bad, for it's well understood,The good are half bad, the bad are half good.Not the happy or sad, for in the swift-flying years,Bring each man his laughter, each man his tears.Not the rich or the poor, for to count a man's wealth,You must know the state of his conscience and health.Not the humble and proud, for in life's busy span,Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man.No! the two kinds of people on earth I mean,Are the people who lift, the people who lean.Wherever you go you'll find the world's massesAre ever divided into these two classes.And, strangely enough, you will find, too, I mean,There is only one lifter to twenty who lean.In which class are you? Are you easing the loadOf the overtaxed lifters who toiled down the road?Or are you a leaner who lets others bear,Your portion of worry and labor and care?” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

26. “Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.” - D.J. Weaver

27. “And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.” - Terry Pratchett

28. “When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.” - Fiona Apple

29. “Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

30. “But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.” - Joyce Carol Oates

31. “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

32. “Wie pani, czasem mam wrażenie, że żyjemy w świecie, który sobie wymyślamy. Ustalamy sobie, co jest dobre, a co nie, rysujemy mapy znaczeń...A potem całe życie zmagamy się z tym, cośmy sobie wykoncypowali. Problem polega na tym, że każdy ma swoją wersję, i dlatego tak trudno jest się ludziom dogadać.” - Olga Tokarczuk

33. “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.” - Taylor Swift

34. “People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.” - Meg Wolitzer

35. “I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.” - Théophile Gautier

36. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” - J.C. Watts Jr.

37. “He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.” - David Levithan

38. “We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

39. “Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.” - David Gemmell

40. “Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.” - Francesca Marciano

41. “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” - C. JoyBell C.

42. “It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.” - Solange nicole

43. “You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh till his teeth dropped out; from old age.” - Joyce Cary

44. “When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.” - Criss Jami

45. “I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.” - Criss Jami

46. “But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.” - Don Roff

47. “Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.” - Ellis Peters

48. “It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.” - L.M. Montgomery

49. “People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

50. “A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.” - Lisa Kogan

51. “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Jason Barger

52. “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” - Marvin J. Ashton

53. “I love the world, just, you know...not the people in it.” - Hannah Vandegrift

54. “Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts” - Stacia Kane

55. “People ask without wanting to know.” - Barbara Kingsolver

56. “The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.” - Denton Welch

57. “People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle” - Debbie Macomber

58. “I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.” - Sylvia Plath

59. “It’s the unknown that draws people.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

60. “You can't always choose the people you work with, but you can choose to learn how to deal with them. They are all different." - Charles” - Rowan Speedwell

61. “The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.” - C. JoyBell C.

62. “Most people are boring and stupid.” - Oscar Wilde

63. “Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'.” - Ibn Mas'ud

64. “And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.” - Philip Pullman

65. “So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.” - Sarah Dessen

66. “And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.” - Norton Juster

67. “No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.” - Shannon Kaiser

68. “...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.” - Evan D.G. Fraser

69. “Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.” - Melina Marchetta

70. “Wir sind das Volk!"Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können.” - Joachim Gauck

71. “Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook,filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.” - Emma Cameron

72. “Which isn’t, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.” - Christopher Moore

73. “It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.” - Jan Karon

74. “It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses.""That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much.""Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now."Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone?” - Barry Lyga

75. “I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing about them, seeing their colors, hearing their stories... and when humans are broken, they're like broken butterfly wings; suddenly there are so many beauties that are seen in different ways, so many thoughts and visions and possibilities that form, which couldn't form when the person wasn't broken! So it is not a very sad thing to be broken, after all! It's during the times of being broken, that you have all the opportunities to become things unforgettable! Just like the broken butterfly wing that I found, which has given me so many thoughts, in so many ways, has shown me so many words, and imaginations! But butterflies need to know, that it doesn't matter at all if the whole world saw their colors or not! But what matters is that they flew, they glided, they hovered, they saw, they felt, and they knew! And they loved the ones whom they flew with! And that is an existence worthwhile!” - C. JoyBell C.

76. “Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.” - A.S. King

77. “It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.” - Yann Martel

78. “Sono egoista, impaziente e un po' insicura. Commetto errori, sono fuori controllo e, allo stesso tempo, difficile da gestire.Ma se non sei in grado di gestire il mio lato peggiore, allora certamente non sarai in grado di gestire quello migliore.” - Marilyn Monroe

79. “When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?” - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

80. “And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.” - Terry Pratchett

81. “Home was more about people than a place.” - Caragh M. O'Brien

82. “I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.” - Ashly Lorenzana

83. “There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.” - Anna Funder

84. “Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were” - Sylvia Day

86. “نحن نلتقي بالناس و لا ندري ان وجوههم مثل لحاء شجر قديم حفر الزمن عليه القصص الكثيرة , ونحن؟ نقرأ القصه الوحيده التي نراها امامنا في الوجه..بغداد مالبورو” - نجم والي

87. “One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least about who you really are and they have never made the effort to learn different.” - J.S. Goldstine

88. “Remember that every person who you come into contact to on any given day has a story that is probably far more amazing than you will imagine and no one is going to just offer up their entire life's worth of experiences to you because you want them to. It takes time to draw someone's story out from within them. It takes trust. It takes sincerity and dedication. Keep in mind that each and every interaction you have with all those people on a daily basis is a unique opportunity to develop any kind of relationship with that person that the two of you might want to be a part of. It doesn't matter how you meet them or what it is that you do with them. It can be as mundane as waving to them in the morning as they leave their driveway, or it can be as huge as saving someone's life in a moment of uncertainty and sacrifice. Each person has the potential to become a friend or a lover or to simply teach you something important and then slip back into the endless rush of other bodies moving about the planet around us. Don't pass these chances up too often, or you'll get lost in the tide yourself.” - Ashly Lorenzana

89. “1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.” - Edward T. Welch

90. “Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

91. “Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.” - Aberjhani

92. “If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?” - Courtney Milan

93. “Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.” - Ernest Hemingway

94. “The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.” - Tennessee Williams

95. “A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” - Mason Cooley

96. “Kaugnay nito, tao lang yata ang may insecurities at ayaw nilang makitang may mas mahusay sa kanila. Yung mga hayop, kapag may hindi mapagkasunduan, wala nang bulung-bulungan o parinigan, upakan at banatan na agad.” - Eros Atalia

97. “It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.” - Elizabeth Berg

98. “I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.” - Ned Vizzini

99. “Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.” - Donna Lynn Hope

100. “I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.” - Bela Lugosi

101. “If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.” - Lisa Wingate

102. “Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.” - Brandi Glanville

103. “Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.” - Adrian Tchaikovsky

104. “To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart.[...]For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there was to know about the nature and the ways of men and women of her class. He was vividly aware of the iron hand underneath the velvet glove; the personality, and especially the self-centeredness, under the polished manners; the plain hard wood, under all the varnish. [...] Eugène had been entirely too quick to take this woman's word for her own kindness. Like all those who cannot help themselves, he had signed on the dotted line, accepting the delightful contract binding both benefactor and recipient, the very first clause of which makes clear that, as between noble souls, perfect equality must be forever maintained. Beneficience, which ties people together, is a heavenly passion, but a thoroughly misunderstood one, and quite as scarce as true love. Both stem from the lavish nature of great souls.” - Honoré de Balzac

105. “People who repress desiresoften turn, suddenly,into hypocrites.” - Rumi