Top 200 Quotes About People (2024 Update)
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51. “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

— George Washington

52. “A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.”

— Simon Sinek

53. “We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”

— Malcolm X

54. “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

55. “Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

— Dale Carnegie

56. “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”

— Lao Tzu

57. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”

— Bono

58. “Culture does not make people. People make culture.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

59. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

60. “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

— Robin Williams

61. “Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.”

— John C. Maxwell

62. “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”

— Kathrine Switzer

63. “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

— George Carlin

64. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

— Emma Lazarus

65. “When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.”

— Steve Maraboli

66. “The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.”

— Steve Jobs

67. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

— Orson Welles

68. “No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

69. “I’m starting with the man in the mirror.”

— Michael Jackson

70. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

— Henry Ford

71. “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you.”

— Miguel Ruiz

72. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

73. “Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

74. “You are the world and the world is you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

75. “You don’t have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”

— Haruki Murakami

76. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”

— John Donne

77. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.”

— Mother Teresa

78. “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

79. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

— Abraham Lincoln

80. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin

81. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.”

— Khalil Gibran

82. “The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”

— Jim Carrey

83. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

— James C. Collins

84. “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”

— Conan O'Brien

85. “You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.”

— Rumi

86. “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

— Oprah Winfrey

87. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”

— Will Rogers

88. “When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.”

— Jim Rohn

89. “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

90. “We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.”

— Rick Warren

91. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

— Anne Frank

92. “There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.”

— Robert M. Hensel

93. “Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.”

— Simon Sinek

94. “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

95. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”

— Simon Sinek

96. “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

— C. S. Lewis

97. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.”

— Brené Brown

98. “Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.”

— Dale Carnegie

99. “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

100. “Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.”

— Tony Robbins