Top 100 People Lessons Quotes

#1. I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Jeff Goldblum

#2. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

#3. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.

Katie McGarry

#4. I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Ina May Gaskin

#5. Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people.

Amy Zhang

#6. I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

Shannon A. Thompson

#7. Stay away from these three people if you want to lead a happy healthy stress free life. Lawyers,Doctors and Priests. Lawyers take your money,Doctors take your health and Priests take your soul.

Lou Silluzio

#8. Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.

Ika Natassa

#9. What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

Denzel Washington

#10. But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Kelly Cutrone

#11. I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#12. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

Nenia Campbell

#13. From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.

Iyanla Vanzant

#14. The scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

Simone Elkeles

#15. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.

Aspen Matis

#16. The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Georg Solti

#17. Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all?

Aman Jassal

#18. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Bethany Brookbank

#19. Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

The Kinks

#20. In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#21. I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.

Karla M. Nashar

#22. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#23. Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who've been hurt the most

Frances Ivy

#24. Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange ... CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.

Shelley K. Wall

#25. The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes

Bayan Bahi

#26. People desire for spices in their life I want some sugar.

Amit Abraham

#27. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.

Veronica Roth

#28. I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Andrew Johnson

#29. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

Auliq Ice

#30. I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from.

Willem Dafoe

#31. Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Athol Fugard

#32. People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren't just fantasies, you know. They're so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

Mahbod Seraji

#33. Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.

Ian Desabrais

#34. The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit.

Wayne Gretzky

#35. Nothing is forever, be it a good time or a bad time; nothing stays the same. Leaves change, seasons change, and so do people. And when people change, our relationships change with that.

Uday Mukerji

#36. The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.

Auliq Ice

#37. Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Nalini Singh

#38. Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul!

Avijeet Das

#39. Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

C. JoyBell C.

#40. When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

Dave Grohl

#41. Some people come into your life as blessings, and others come in your life as lessons. You are both to me.

Christy Pastore

#42. I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.

Dustin Diamond

#43. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Paulo Coelho

#44. Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#45. I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

Nehali Lalwani

#46. Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.

Abhijit Naskar

#47. Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea.

Sudhir Ahluwalia

#48. There are many things in life that can help you to cope with emotions that have a habit of bringing you down. Just always remember; help comes in all forms, and not necessarily only from people.

Martin R. Lemieux

#49. The happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#50. I believe that flowers are like people. Flowers come in different colours, shapes and sizes. Some extremely rare and some very common. They are all beautiful in their own unique way.

Alex Haditaghi

#51. People come to our lives, people leave our lives; they teach something to us, we teach something to them! Life works this way!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. I just realized, the only people I have been scared of interacting or be-friending all my life are the ones with One Track Mind.

Poonam Parihar

#53. People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Chad Harbach

#54. The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.

Duane "Dog" Chapman

#55. Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?

Artemus Withers

#56. All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

Glenn Ficarra

#57. In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

Reba Linker

#58. I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Marianne Williamson

#59. There are only two classes of people in the world - people who lie and people who don't lie.

K.A. Hosein

#60. I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people ... [a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,

Addy Stevens

#61. People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.

Ruth Ahmed

#62. Don't forget the little people, even when you want to.

Jesse Petersen

#63. In life we meet people and they come and go. But, only God will remain the same. Despite what others think, God's love is eternal. No matter who abandons you, God will never leave or forsake you.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#64. I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie of all
that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what's coming and neither do they.

Tammara Webber

#65. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.

Erik Tomblin

#66. It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

Lindsay Lohan

#67. The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. ... We can't change other people, and we can't force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.

Mari Serebrov

#68. Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

Bob Hope

#69. We never plant trees in other people's yard and hope them to grow. We plant them in ours, water them and take care of them. We should do the same with our lives. Never lay it on others.

Saru Singhal

#70. It was like her father said: never make people glad twice-glad to see you come, and glad to see you go

Natalie Baszile

#71. don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#72. Take care of your people is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

Eric Greitens

#73. Learn to be friendly and learn to welcome all people, but note however in doing so that it is not every hand that is stretched towards you that deserves your handshake!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#74. Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom. If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.

Ed Stetzer

#75. Not everyone is meant to be in your life for the long run. Some are just passing through to lead us to those that should be.

April Mae Monterrosa

#76. my best may not be the best, but that is the best. The more I give out my best to people, the more they give out their worse, but that is also the best; for even Jesus Christ faced the worst.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#77. Life can be a beautiful journey if you accept who you are and accept the people around you for what they are.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#78. People don't remember lessons. They remember stories.

Kamand Kojouri

#79. It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless.

Mustafa SULTAN

#80. Life is not a recipe. Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.

Mario Batali

#81. Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#82. When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#83. You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Joss Whedon

#84. The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

James Heckman

#85. I cannot change the people around me, but I can change what kind of people are around me.

Kambiz Shabankareh

#86. The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. Most people never think beyond their birth. But if I had contented myself with everyone else's opinions of me, I wouldn't be the man I am today. People like us make our own destinies, Gwenwhyfar - and to the waves with the naysayers who oppose us.

Jennifer McKeithen

#88. People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#89. He didn't want to have to be the Gay Best Friend providing life lessons for liberal straight people. He just wanted to get laid.

FayJay

#90. I hate discouraging people and discouraging the people!!

Nelson Jack

#91. A Gem Is Always A Gem. It'll Shine Bright Like Always Even If You Put It In Charcoal. You Just Need To Open Your Eyes & Heart To Find Them In Human ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#92. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#93. It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

Kathryn Craft

#94. Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.

Nenia Campbell

#95. There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

Kris Carr

#96. A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#97. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Stefan Zweig

#98. My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don't really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#99. Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live." ~Mercy~

Lucian Bane

#100. You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don't have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life's lessons.

Ron Baratono

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