Top 100 Treat People Quotes

#1. I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

Sarah Silverman

#2. The best we can do is, treat people with sincere respect. Staying is their choice. If they want to leave, they've every right to.

Sarvesh Jain

#3. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

Andrew Klavan

#4. Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this century. But that's not enough to set me apart.

Rick Riordan

#5. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

Liam O'Flaherty

#6. When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.

Drake

#7. I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

Matt LeBlanc

#8. People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

Courtney Barnett

#9. We need to treat people according to who they are in Christ because in Him we acquire God's character.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Mark Ruffalo

#11. It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

Katharine Whitehorn

#12. All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

Walter Payton

#13. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

Adam McKay

#14. If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

James Altucher

#15. Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Tim Minchin

#16. You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.

Sharon Stone

#17. The I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

Alex Pattakos

#18. I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.

Rashida Jones

#19. People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Gillian Anderson

#20. I treat everybody the same. You know I love to be with people: the youngsters.

Pele

#21. How people treat you is not very important but how you react to it, is very important.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live ... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Joe Manchin

#23. I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

Ken Burns

#24. Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

Mary J. Blige

#25. Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.

Bo Burnham

#26. You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

Bill McDermott

#27. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they'll treat the customers right.

Herb Kelleher

#29. I still have people from my past who treat me wrong, i thank them for making me strong.

Bharath Mamidoju

#30. I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

Emma Watson

#31. Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

Cesare Pavese

#32. Consumerism sees the consumption of ever more products and services as a positive thing. It encourages people to treat themselves, spoil themselves, and even kill themselves slowly by overconsumption. Frugality is a disease to be cured.

Yuval Noah Harari

#33. When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures

Brian May

#34. I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

Lynn Coady

#35. The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw them a few bread crumbs. They will then follow you forever.

Joseph Stalin

#36. If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Ted Turner

#37. When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

Thomas S. Monson

#38. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Queen Latifah

#39. When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

Laura Linney

#40. If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.

Roberto Bolano

#41. There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.

Jeff Garlin

#42. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Dick Cavett

#43. Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."

Rita Rudner

#44. Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Internet bill - you need to have people who know what you want.

Caitlin Doughty

#45. I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

Henry Rollins

#46. Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity.

Mark Martin

#47. Not letting our mood affect the way we treat people is a forgotten sunnah

Nouman Ali Khan

#48. Young people ... have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing
not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness
so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Louise J. Kaplan

#49. We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

Jack Klugman

#50. I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Mark Martin

#51. I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment

Malcolm X

#52. Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous

Bette A. Stevens

#53. Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that.

Henry Cavill

#54. What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Nikki Reed

#55. Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.

John Wooden

#56. You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.

Michael Milken

#57. I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised. Sir

Richard Branson

#58. I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of ... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

William Sadler

#59. You know Schmeckle, people are like feet. Most everyone has a pair and yet feet are so unique. So, we must treat all people with respect and accept their unique way.

Ellen Newhouse

#60. The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

C.S. Lewis

#61. Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#62. It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

Laura Hillenbrand

#63. If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

Matt Dillahunty

#64. It may be, in the end, that a good society is defined more by how people treat strangers than by how they treat those they know.

James Surowiecki

#65. Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

William Gaddis

#66. Mark Frankel was just a very tender, thoughtful person, and that was really nice. At that point in life, I hadn't met a lot of people my senior who were that tender, and still doing well and making a real go of it. That was a treat, for sure.

Brigid Brannagh

#67. If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#68. I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people ... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.

Macklemore

#69. My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

Hamza Yusuf

#70. We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Bobby Scott

#71. Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Terry Pratchett

#72. People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Josh Fox

#73. I feel like I'm a professional. I've been a professional for a number of years. I'm a businesswoman and a tax lawyer and a professional and so that's how I treat other people.

Michele Bachmann

#74. Why treat people only to send them back to the conditions that made them sick in the first place?

Rishi Manchanda

#75. Yes, I did," he says casually. "In the first minute I met them. Then in the second minute, I decided I wasn't going to be into dudes who treat others like crap only because they can. And then in the third, I actually stopped noticing they were around. I'm easily bored around stupid people.

Melina Marchetta

#76. We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

Nina Fedoroff

#77. 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

#78. I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore.

Kristen Stewart

#79. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.

Jesse Ventura

#80. There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

Paula Deen

#81. Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

Jan Egeland

#82. If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.

Cath Crowley

#83. The things ordained for you - teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you - treat them with love. With real love.

Marcus Aurelius

#84. If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.

Cassandra Clare

#85. I feel sorry ... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

Beth Ditto

#86. Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

Chuck Palahniuk

#87. Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

Bo Bice

#88. Literature could turn you into an asshole: he'd learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.

Chad Harbach

#89. At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yourself to show kindness to your fellow citizens.

Kiera Cass

#90. I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Brenda Blethyn

#91. It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Bacon

#92. You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Nicky Gumbel

#93. If people treat you like shit, you treat them like shit right back. They won't like it, but they'll respect it. It's a lonely road. Although, truth be told, I enjoyed being alone. Life was much clearer.

Tijan

#94. To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

Angela Merkel

#95. In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn't matter how famous
or how capable you are.

Li Ka-shing

#96. If a stranger lives with you in your land, do not molest him. You must treat him like one of your own people and love him as yourselves, for you were strangers in Egypt.

Karen Armstrong

#97. I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.

Kimberly Schlapman

#98. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.

Helen Oyeyemi

#99. The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#100. Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

Carolyn Mackler

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