54 Inspiring Quotes From People

In a world that often feels overwhelming, words have the unique ability to motivate, uplift, and inspire. Quotes from remarkable individuals across various walks of life offer glimpses into the wisdom they've garnered through their experiences. Whether you're seeking a boost of encouragement, a nudge towards positivity, or a reflective moment, the right words can transform your mindset and fuel your journey. In this collection of 54 inspiring quotes, you'll find a diverse array of thoughts and insights that promise to resonate with your personal journey, provoke thought, and perhaps even ignite a spark of creativity. So, get ready to explore these gems of wisdom and let them guide you towards a more empowered and inspired version of yourself.

1. “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.” - Terry Pratchett

2. “See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be” - Joyce Carol Oates

3. “From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.” - Julia Gregson

4. “People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.” - Jeannette Walls

5. “Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based on having things in common, like raspberry picking and a love of dogs, and Shakespeare, and long country walks? Or is it the knock-you-out, eat-you-up, set-you-on-fire kind of love that I have longed for-and avoided-all my life?” - Alison Larkin

6. “A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.” - Charles de Lint

7. “Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.” - Carl Sagan

8. “When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.” - Ayn Rand

9. “The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.” - Steve Maraboli

10. “I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.” - Robert Michaels MD - 2007 - Graduation Speaker

11. “Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.” - Rasmenia Massoud

12. “On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake,you may say 'Horas' to Batak people,when we meet, visit and shake hands.” - Toba Beta

13. “People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.” - Garth Stein

14. “Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.” - Carolee Dean

15. “In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?” - Thomas Harris

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

17. “Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” - Nicholas Sparks (The Lucky One)

18. “Conceited people never hear anything but praise.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

19. “Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.” - Toni Sorenson

20. “…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.” - Kathleen Winter

21. “Life there was hard and it made people hard.” - Jeannette Walls

22. “I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.” - Michael Thomas Ford

23. “Life is a poem most people never read.” - Laurence Overmire

24. “People take one another for granted” - Nina LaCour

25. “Look in the mirror. What you see there is what you get from others. When you smile, smile comes back to you. When you get angry, anger comes back to you. When you love, love comes back to you, when you hate, hatred comes back to you.That's very simple. You can make your life however you like by how you behave.” - Hiroko Sakai

26. “Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!""What do you mean 'evil'?"Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people.""People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses.” - Gerald Morris

27. “Bad people very often do one good thing.” - Emma Forrest

28. “I think people make their own faces, as they grow.” - Enid Blyton

29. “Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.” - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

30. “Roses and thorns are parts of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is not on the plant for more than a week, but the thorns are there forever.Roses are teaching that the beauty of life will bloom, once you have taught yourself the lessons given by living with the thorns.” - Grigoris Deoudis

31. “It is our tendency to look at people as opposed to looking into them.” - Tobin Wilson

32. “People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.” - Judith Guest

33. “The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day...” - C. JoyBell C.

34. “There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything.” - Kamenashi Kazuya

35. “We must see people not as object but as beings, with souls and with bodies through which they express their souls.” - Kate Wicker

36. “You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.” - Robert Fulghum

37. “When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.” - Lionel Suggs

38. “She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.” - Sue Townsend

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

40. “It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they were on show: so many of them seemed to be wearing costumes, not just policemen and firemen and waiters and shop assistants, but people in their going-to-work costumes, their I'm-a-mother-pushing-a-pram costumes, babies and children in outfits that were like costumes; workers digging holes in their costume-bright orange vests; joggers in jogging costume; even the drinkers in the streets and parks, even the beggars, seemed to be wearing costumes, uniforms.” - John Lanchester

41. “I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

42. “Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

43. “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

44. “I sometimes see a shortcoming in myself, how little patience or understanding I have for many people in the way they act. I am able to see the fragility in some, but I only have so much time to wade through their manipulations and traps and draining behaviour. Some people think I'm heartless in leaving others to suffer their own selves.” - Bill Callahan

45. “It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.” - Skip Coryell

46. “I like to think of people as roses, as they grow older, they slowly and unwillingly start giving up on life, even though they want it. I like to think of people as roses, because I think that they don’t know how lovely they could be sometimes. And that they’re meant to die, but they do their best to give pleasure to others’ eyes and hearts.” - abraham m. alghanem

47. “Love doesn't keep score," he challenged.I shrugged my shoulders. "But people do...” - Donna Lynn Hope

48. “The laws of men are not infallible.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

49. “History is the nothing people write about a nothing.” - William Golding

50. “Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

51. “Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.” - Bryant McGill

52. “I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.” - Charles Bukowski

53. “Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.” - Bryant McGill

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