Top 180 Human Nature Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

— Orison Swett Marden

152. “When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

153. “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

154. “Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

155. “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

156. “What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.”

— Burt Bacharach

157. “A kindness is never wasted.”

— Aesop

158. “To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

159. “The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

160. “Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”

— Terry Pratchett

161. “One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.”

— Mother Teresa

162. “The cornerstone on which all things are based is man’s concept of himself.”

— Neville Goddard

163. “I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.”

— Ronald Reagan

164. “Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

165. “We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.”

— C.G. Jung

166. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.”

— Buddha

167. “Man is the measure of all things.”

— Protagoras

168. “There’s a story behind every person. There’s a reason why they’re the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

169. “We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

170. “The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.”

— John Naisbitt

171. “No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.”

— James Allen

172. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

— George Orwell

173. “Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”

— Robin S. Sharma

174. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

175. “Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

176. “We need to put love back into the world, remind the world that love is important. We’re all one.”

— Michael Jackson

177. “Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

178. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”

— Alexander Pope

179. “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but through every human heart.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

180. “I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.”

— William Golding

181. “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

182. “The development of willpower -I will, I won’t and I want- may define what it means to be human.”

— Kelly McGonigal

183. “You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.”

— Patricia Polacco

184. “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

— Anne Frank

185. “Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.”

— Maya Angelou