Top 180 Human Nature Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

— J.K. Rowling

102. “Be that self which one truly is.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

103. “What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved – what then?”

— C.G. Jung

104. “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

105. “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.”

— Deborah Day

106. “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

— Wilma Rudolph

107. “The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.”

— Pope John Paul II

108. “We are more alike than unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

109. “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

110. “I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.”

— Rachel Scott

111. “There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

112. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

113. “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”

— Christopher Hitchens

114. “As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.”

— Joseph Murphy

115. “People will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

116. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

— Maya Angelou

117. “What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

118. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

119. “You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.”

— Max Lucado

120. “Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”

— Dennis Prager

121. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

— Dr. Seuss

122. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.”

— Robin Williams

123. “Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.”

— Brené Brown

124. “The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.”

— Paulo Coelho

125. “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”

— Elie Wiesel

126. “Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”

— Margaret J. Wheatley

127. “Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

128. “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

— John F. Kennedy

129. “Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”

— William James

130. “When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

131. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”

— Dale Carnegie

132. “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

— Walt Kelly

133. “Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

— John F. Kennedy

134. “You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!”

— Viktor E. Frankl

135. “We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.”

— Anthony D. Williams

136. “It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

137. “Hope springs eternal.”

— Alexander Pope

138. “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

139. “God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.”

— Max Lucado

140. “Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”

— Steve Maraboli

141. “You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”

— Anne Frank

142. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

143. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

— Blaise Pascal

144. “Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”

— Jim Henson

145. “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

— Khalil Gibran

146. “The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.”

— Leo Tolstoy

147. “The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.”

— Parker J. Palmer

148. “You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

— John Steinbeck

149. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

150. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

— Abraham Lincoln