People quotes

People

100.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

100.4K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside people — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Thinking 95.1K quotes Want 24.4K quotes Believe 31K quotes Giving 21.9K quotes Mean 28K quotes Trying 18.3K quotes

Quote collection

People quotes (page 197 of 5018)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
People

"Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop."

People Prayer Ocean
Read quote 17 likes
Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
People

"As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world."

People Thinking Water
Read quote 17 likes
Liz Murray Author and Speaker
People

"Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you."

People Doors Sick
Read quote 17 likes
Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
People

"Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them."

People Mind Running
Read quote 17 likes
Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
People

"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."

People Thinking Justice
Read quote 17 likes
Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
People

"The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there."

People Gone Hunters
Read quote 17 likes
Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter
People

"Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?"

People Dream Rocks
Read quote 17 likes
Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
People

"In a Nutshell - Fundamental Techniques In Handling People; Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain; Principle 2 - Give honest and sincere appreciation; Principle 3 - Arouse in the other person an eager want."

People Giving Appreciation
Read quote 16 likes
C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
People

"Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval."

People Jesus Hatred
Read quote 16 likes
C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
People

"Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human."

People Humble Vanity
Read quote 16 likes
Baltasar Gracian Philosopher, Writer
People

"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."

People Common What Matters
Read quote 16 likes
Barack Obama Politician
People

"All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by."

People Children Heart
Read quote 16 likes
Barack Obama Politician
People

"Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths."

People Abortion Muslim Faith
Read quote 16 likes