"Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people."
Read quote
10 likes
People quotes
People
100.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to People
Browse quotes that often appear alongside people — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
People quotes (page 303 of 5018)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians."
Read quote
10 likes
"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."
Read quote
10 likes
"The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments."
Read quote
10 likes
"Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible."
Read quote
10 likes
"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
Read quote
10 likes
"Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people."
Read quote
10 likes
"No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people."
Read quote
10 likes
"I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them."
Read quote
10 likes
"I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself."
Read quote
10 likes
"If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
Read quote
10 likes
"We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people."
Read quote
10 likes
"The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place"
Read quote
10 likes
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
Read quote
10 likes
"I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am."
Read quote
10 likes
"The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better."
Read quote
10 likes
"Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within."
Read quote
10 likes
"I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me."
Read quote
10 likes
"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people."
Read quote
10 likes
"Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques."
Read quote
10 likes