People Quotes | Sayings for Understanding People

Some people are like Slinky’s. Pretty much useless but make you smile when you push them down the stairs. :)

People will question all the good things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought.

Don’t chase people, Be yourself, do your work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you and stay.
– Will Smith

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

People put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who loves them enough to break them!

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts.
– Flavia Weedn

If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative. Know when to close the account.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say…I just watch what they do.
– Andrew Carnegie

Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you.

Normal is only a cycle on a washing machine.

Man: What surprises you the most about humankind?

God: That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die and die as thought though they had never lived.

Some people come into your life and you just know you will never be able to replace them if they left.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
– Albert Einstein

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
– Will Smith

One mistake and people will forget all your good deeds.

Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it’s a brighter day.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
– Wayne Dyer

Sometimes, you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care but because they don’t.

You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say, they’re just being careful about who they open up to…

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say!!

Open-minded, optimistic and flexible people always end up winning the battle in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Sometimes you have to take people for who they say they are, because eventually the person they really are will be revealed.

People say: “Find good people and leave the bad ones.” But I say, find the good in people and ignore the bad in them. Because “No one is perfect”.

It’s funny, the people that know the least about me have the most to say.

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullsh*t. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
– Jim Morrison

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
– Bill Maher

Don’t make permanent plans with temporary people.

Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.

People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but their actions will speak for themselves. Pay attention.

People want what they can’t have and when they get it they don’t want it anymore.

You can not change the people around you, but you can change the people that you choose to be around.

There not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

People will judge you no matter what you do…so you might as well do what you want.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
– Bob Marley

You can lie down for people to walk on you and they will still complain that you’re not flat enough.

People are like music. Some speak the truth and others just noise!

Nobody is too busy, ever, it’s just a matter of priorities.

Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don’t even deserve to be an issue in your life.

When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them.

Nobody cares about you tears,
Nobody cares about your sadness,
Nobody cares about your pain,
But they all care about your mistakes.

Treat people the way you want to be treated.

Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become.
– Shane Parrish

Have you realized that people will tell you they care, but they don’t seem to show it unless you get sick, die, or become famous.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
– Brian Tracy

There will always be people telling you – U can’t!
Look them in the eyes and say – Watch me!

A pleasant and nice person is not necessarily a good person. A frank and critical person is not necessarily a bad person.
– Dr T.P.Chia

There are two types of people in this world, those who say they can and those who say they can’t, both of them are right. Which one are you?

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably…they want to keep you down.
– Robert Greene

People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
– Bill Maher

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Negative people are only happy when they are bringing you down to their level.

People are probably not happy with their lives if they’re busy discussing yours.

Distance yourself from the people who: lie to you, people who disrespect you, people who use you and people whose job in their life is to bring you down.

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is “In black and white,” until later their true colors come out.

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where you stand.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
– Douglas Adams

People will remember you according to their mood and need. :- )

Don’t worry about what I’m doing. Worry about why you’re worried about that I’m doing.

People come into are lives and then leave quickly, but then there are people that come into are lives and leave there footprints in are hearts forever and never truly leave.

Some say “Find the good people and ignore the bad ones.” but really it’s “Find the good in people and ignore the bad in them.” Nobody’s perfect.

The funniest people are the saddest once.
– Confucius

Not everyone things the way you think, knows the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people.
– Arthur Forman

Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.
– Steven Wright

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
– Socrates

Talkative people are not necessarily smarter, more knowledgeable and more interesting.
– Dr T.P.Chia

People always have too good an opinion about themselves, and they often sabotage themselves without realizing it.
– Dr T.P.Chia

People are never happy with what they have. They want what they had. Or what others have.

People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, it’s not always just about you..!

In life you meet different people, some will encourage you, some will support you in every situation you are, bad or good. And some are there to take you down in life.

People who take too much are always on the hunt for people who give too much.
– Alan Robert Neal

Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
– John Green

Negative people tend to belittle what you are doing. Positive people often try to encourage what you are doing.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people and their bullsh*t.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
– Robert Frost

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it will take their breath away.

I think that every person you meet you fall in love with. Just a little bit. And a piece of them always stays with you, so overtime you collect people, and maybe you don’t always remember every single one, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t affected you. For better or for worse, they changed you.

Some people are so narrow- minded they can see through a keyhole with both eyes.

People will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.

There are joyful people and miserable people, but there are no “good” people and “bad” people.
– Sadhguru

Sometimes people don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.

Don’t expect people to always understand you. Instead, learn to understand them. Then accept, forgive & love unconditionally. This is a sure way to be happy.
– RVM

You’re going to piss a lot of people off when you start doing what’s best for you.

The only definite thing about human beings is that they change.

It’s so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.
– David Beckham

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
– T.S. Eliot

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
– Paulo Coelho

People don’t change. They’ve just never shown you that side of them. When they break up with their ex, they’ll tell you “Oh, he’s not the same person I used to know.” but in reality, they just never took the time to get to know that person.

Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.

The most interesting people you’ll find are ones that don’t fit into your average cardboard box. They’ll make what they need, they’ll make their own boxes.
– Dr. Temple Grandin

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
– Plato

You can fool some of the people some of the time – and that’s enough to make a decent living.
– W.C. Fields

Every day people straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
– Che Guevara

People learn how to treat you based on what you accept from them.

People will talk about you only when they cannot get what you have or when achieve what you have achieved.

You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.
– Nicholas Sparks

The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.

Stupid people seek entertainment
Wise people seek wisdom
Smart people seek knowledge.

Pleasant and courteous people are not necessarily honest and trustworthy.
– Dr T.P.Chia

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can never please everyone in life. As long as you are happy don’t care about what they will think of you.

There are people who dream and there are people who scream. There are people who cry and there are people who fly. The good news is that this is a choice.
– RVM

People are reluctant to know about their weaknesses and flaws. People tend to exaggerate their strengths and achievements.
– Dr T.P.Chia

You cannot save people. You can only love them.
– Anais Nin

Everything is about energy. The way you feel around certain people will tell you if this connection needs to be stopped or not.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
– Will Smith

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
– Douglas Adams

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou

Be kind to people who are different from you.
– Albert Einstein

Humans are like firecrackers, you get the ones that are duds by nature, they don’t go anywhere and fizz out on the ground, and then you get the ones that go up high into the sky and are very pretty to everyone watching when they explode, humans are the same, whether you’re a dud or the firework that goes far in life, in the end all you are is a show for the ones left behind.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
– Plato

Look at the people around you. Some inspire you, some perspire you. Be with those that build energy in you.

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
– Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
– Joseph Joubert

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
– John Green

Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise
themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
– Charles Caleb Colton

You can fool some people some times but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

If you listen to what people say you will hunt fish in the forest and fish rabbits in the ocean.

I can’t live my life trying to please people because people easily forget good things than bad things that you can do.

Some people wants you to suffer just because they are not happy and some people give their all just to make you smile. This is something which makes difference.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Trying to show someone how much you really care about them in words, when I don’t think they will ever realize.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can’t do.
– Edgar Watson Howe

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
– Malala Yousafzai

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.
– Jonathan Swift

We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others because we don’t live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off. If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.
– Trevor Noah

People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.
– Desmond Tutu

Tough times never last. Tough people do.
– Robert H. Schuller

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
– Lewis Carroll

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
– Steve Jobs

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
– Paulo Coelho

When people judge you just turn around with a big smile and just say to yourself its not me they have some issues.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.
– James Joyce

People don’t change, you just find out who they really are.

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.
– Trevor Noah

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that’s not how people are.
– Trevor Noah

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
– Che Guevara

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Sometimes people drift apart from one another and there’s no other reason for it except that you both changed.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
– Osho

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
– Doug Larson

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
– Isaac Newton

Sometimes the people who know least about you have the most to say. Don’t let their poisonous, fictitious words influence you.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
– Indira Gandhi

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
– Nicholas Sparks

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

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You know what I like most about people? Pets.
– Jarod Kintz

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
– George Orwell

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.
– Trevor Noah

If you treat people right they will treat you right … ninety percent of the time.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

People who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
– Maya Angelou

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!
– Charles M. Schulz

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who pee in the shower and those who lie about it.

You imbibe your associations. Those people you closely connect with … the conversations you have… all profoundly influence your thinking and actions. You slowly become the sum of the people closest to you. Choose them wisely.
– Adiela Akoo

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
– Clarence Darrow

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
– Veronica Roth

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
– Albert Schweitzer

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

People are meant to talk and if they talk about you just know you have a purpose, ignore them and move on.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love.
– Osho

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
– Brene Brown

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
– Brene Brown

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
– Doug Larson

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
– Aldous Huxley

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
– Lewis Carroll

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
– Fran Lebowitz

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
– Jim Morrison

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
– Colin Powell

We are all special cases.
– Albert Camus

Treat people the way you want to be treated, if you treat people like dogs you will also be treated like dogs.

We human beings are what we have been for millions of years – colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Don’t try to be understood by the people, because they may makes you feel as if you’re misunderstanding yourself.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
– George Eliot

I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another, profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: We all seek happiness and do not want suffering.
– Dalai Lama

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that’s only natural. It’s hard. But it’s fair.
– Edward Abbey

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.
– Susan Cain

If people were silent nothing would change.
– Malala Yousafzai

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
– Francis Bacon

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
– Napoleon Hill

Why do people always want to be liked by everyone, instead of really liking themselves first. Because being liked by somebody else comes automatically if you like yourself first.

80% of people’s problems are about how they feel about themselves.
– Joyce Meyer

Some people belong entirely to others … They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.
– Baltasar Gracian

Many people keep going round in circles. In the end, they find they are where they started.
– RVM

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
– Alexandre Dumas

Good men must not obey the laws too much.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
– Trevor Noah

People are only mean when they are threatened.
– Mitch Albom

Some people make themselves miserable and everybody else miserable when they can rather make themselves happy and everybody else happy.
– RVM

Now a days people know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

No one can be 100% useful and no one can be 100% useless.

People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.
– RVM

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.
– Chris Rock

Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.
– Edgar Watson Howe

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
– Apple Computers

Technology changes, but people stay the same.
– Daniel H. Wilson

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
– Stephen R. Covey

Just as hurtful as someone saying mean things to you can be someone that says very nice things to you that you find out later they never really meant.

Square meals often make round people.
– E. Joseph Cossman

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
– Blaise Pascal

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

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

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
– Blaise Pascal

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
– Vladimir Putin

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
– Drew Barrymore

It’s a pity that most people we expect to know us real good can’t even spell our first name.

Rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their own.
– Barbara Delinsky

We have enough people who tell it like it is – now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.
– Robert Orben

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.
– Jack Dorsey

People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
– Sydney J. Harris

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
– Franz Kafka

There’s always a real reason behind every “just wondering”.

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
– Che Guevara

Some people don’t need therapy. They just need some space.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

– Pearl Bailey

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
– Edgar Watson Howe

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.
– Vladimir Putin

If you bind too strongly to things and people, when they disappear, it will not go maybe even a part of ourselves?
– Richard Bach

Angry people are not always wise.
– Jane Austen

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
– Larry Page

Some people’s conversations consist mainly of a series of questions that make one tired of being investigated.
– Boghos L. Artinian

Disrupting other people’s lives is the solution of choice for those who mismanage their own.
– Alan Robert Neal

I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The public have neither shame or gratitude.
– William Hazlitt

It is not that people are mean, it is that they think they do not have enough for themselves.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
– Steve Martin

The people don’t know what they need. They only know what they want.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
– Edmund Burke

Dull people filled him with terror.
– Thomas Wolfe

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
– K.D. Lang

Hardships can harden even the best person.
– Amy Tan

To know a people, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
– Charles Caleb Colton

People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
– Terry Pratchet

If there’s anything that bothers me, it’s one person demeaning another.
– Fred Rogers

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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