Inspiration can often be found in the words of those who have faced challenges, embraced change, and pursued their passions with unwavering determination. Our curated collection of the top 79 inspiring human quotes brings together powerful insights and reflections that motivate, uplift, and encourage us to strive for our best. Whether you’re seeking encouragement, wisdom, or a fresh perspective, these quotes offer timeless guidance to help fuel your journey.
1. “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” - Albert Einstein
2. “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” - J.K. Rowling
3. “There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.” - Tom Robbins
4. “To err is human, to purr is feline.” - Robert Byrne
5. “...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. “A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced” - Graham Greene
7. “It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.” - Henri Frédéric Amiel
8. “Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.” - Santosh Kalwar
9. “The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.” - Anonymous
10. “If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, then clearly it follows that there is nothing on earth so near to God as a human being. The conclusion is inescapable, that to be in the presence of even the meanest, lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity of the world is still to be closer to God than when looking up into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. Certainly that is why there is nothing in the new testament about beautiful sunsets.- Mike Mason -Author of "The Mystery of Marriage” - Mike Mason
11. “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” - Stephen Hawking
12. “If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.” - T.H. White
13. “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” - Emerson M. Pugh
14. “Tidak Jem, kukira hanya ada satu jenis manusia. Manusia.(Jem) Pikirku juga begitu, saat aku seusiamu. Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk saling membenci?” - Harper Lee
15. “Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.” - Miguel de Unamuno
16. “Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ” - Margaret Mead
17. “To hurt is as human as to breathe.” - J.K. Rowling
18. “I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two per cent feeling, creatures of habit. Which makes psychiatrists really pharmacists who have to listen longer.” - Gerard Donovan
19. “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
20. “Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.” - Jeffrey Eugenides
21. “Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.” - Yahtzee Croshaw
22. “What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.” - Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
23. “So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.” - John Marsden
24. “There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.” - Neal A. Maxwell
25. “Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse” - Joseph Brodsky
26. “Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” - Leo Tolstoy
27. “...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.” - George Orwell
28. “The world of an animal is reduced to its perimeter. Human world is reduced to its perimeter, but does the world of God have perimeters? If it does then it is not infinite, but if it doesn’t, it means that this is not a world.” - Sorin Cerin
29. “Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
30. “Anger is a ghost.Human is the host.” - Toba Beta
31. “I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.” - Patricia Highsmith
32. “God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn from each other and with each other and there is no growing, there is no learning, there is no wonder and no majesty in life if we were like God. We were meant to see colour and difference.To deny these is to lack respect. To blind ourselves to these is to fool one another. To shun these is to deny ourselves growth and knowledge.” - C. JoyBell C.
33. “Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--human.” - Isaac Asimov
34. “Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
35. “Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.” - Emma Donoghue
36. “I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.” - George W. Bush
37. “Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]” - David Foster Wallace
38. “You are human and fallible.” - Charlotte Brontë
39. “In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.” - Charles Dickens
40. “In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.” - Gary Snyder
41. “Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.” - Jeff Lindsay
42. “Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.” - Truman Capote
43. “He leaned down and kissed my forehead. The soft melody of his lips was calming. I closed my eyes. I could smell his human skin, his human breath, his human hair, and for the first time, I would give anything to be human too.” - Alysha Speer
44. “People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.” - Carson McCullers
45. “It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.” - Morrie Schwartz
46. “A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.” - Criss Jami
47. “Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.” - Dianna Hardy
48. “I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.” - Osamu Dazai
49. “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.” - Neil Gaiman
50. “We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.” - Wayne Cordeiro
51. “I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.” - Sue Hubbell
52. “The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.” - Kurt Vonnegut
53. “The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.” - Norman O. Brown
54. “My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.” - C. JoyBell C.
55. “Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.” - Daniel H. Wilson
56. “University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.” - C. JoyBell C.
57. “Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair.” - Fernán Caballero
58. “Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.” - Tom Giaquinto
59. “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.
60. “When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?” - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
61. “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.” - Carroll Bryant
62. “Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati” - Wahyu Aditya
63. “The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.” - Nikos Kazantzakis
64. “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?” - Neil Gaiman
65. “Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.” - Rebecca McKinsey
66. “Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect and honor! But if you take the Afghan Hound and lock it in a small cage, shun it and look upon it badly, treat it as a pestilence and wish that it would die; that same creature of beauty will become a vile, unrepentant, dark creature of the shadows! Untrusting, hidden in the corner, aggressive... something that will harm others and yourself! But is this the nature of the creature, is this the fault of the creature? Or are YOU the one who has created the monster that it has become? And this is my philosophy: that we are both corporeal and incorporeal beings, therefore, the same amount of good intent MUST be given to both our soul and our body!” - C. JoyBell C.
67. “The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!” - Adriana Koulias
68. “So – I am n-nothing more than – than a bloody job?! On top of not knowing why you must look after me – you only jumped at the chance to help me because your – that V-Vampire thought you couldn’t?! What are you, some – some child?!”“I am no child, human!”“Oh I would not have thought so,” she breathed condescendingly sending his blood to boil despite the ring, “if it were not for the fact that only children react so wondrously juvenile when faced with such a choice! You bargain my life over a show of bravado! And where is your brother, Christian?! He has not been here to see your brilliant work as my watcher, has he?!” - S.C. Parris
69. “IF YOU WANT TO ALIVE REAL, THEN JOIN THE COMMUNITY OF HUMAN.” - Arbab Jehangir
70. “I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.” - Karen Marie Moning
71. “Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.” - V.S. Ramachandran
72. “So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.” - Aaron Copland
73. “Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.” - Darren Shan
74. “The human mind and body are truly extraordinary. They are the quintessence of excellence in motion. We talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. We dream, aspire, and become. All that we are is mind and body and spirit—that is our universe.” - Lorii Myers
75. “Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.” - Beth Fantaskey
76. “No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.” - Sarah Addison Allen
77. “The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something more, something better, something nobler. It starts as a thought, a want, a need, or a desire and then grows and evolves with intention and direction, upward with lust and hunger. The continued drive feeds the rise.” - Lorii Myers
78. “But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.” - Rick Yancey
79. “Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.” - K.A. Laity
