Top 100 What Other People Say Quotes
#1. As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
Victoria Osteen
#2. I dress for myself because when I feel good, it doesn't matter what other people say. I think it's all about confidence and the way you carry yourself that draws people to you.
Emma Roberts
#3. It's hard to tell the truth sometimes, especially if you don't want to hurt someone. And you did. You said what you feel. And you must do what is right for you, not what other people say is right.
Louise Rennison
#4. I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.
Anna Benson
#5. When people write in favor or against anybody, that hardly helps or hurts them ... man can be done or undone by his own writing, not by what other people say of him.
Jorge Luis Borges
#6. I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.
John Lloyd
#7. Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.
Joyce Meyer
#8. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.
C.S. Lewis
#9. Don't let what other people say disturb your mind. Be happy.
David F. Swensen
#10. We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control
we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#12. If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.
Robin S. Sharma
#13. Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#14. Yes, I am sinful and flawed, but I am also loved and welcomed. It doesn't really matter what other people say or do. God loves me, even in my brokenness, and that's all that matters.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#15. I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#16. But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me.
Mark Haddon
#17. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf
#18. A lot of people believe what other people say.
B.B. King
#19. Don't forget Who you are writing for. It's easy to get discouraged when people don't like your writing, but that's just it. They're people. You don't want to serve people, you want to serve God. Write for Him, and ignore what other people say. It just doesn't matter.
Ivy Rose
#20. Today look in the mirror and say 10 positive things about yourself !! Regardless of what other people say about you, your OWN words have more power over the direction of your life than other peoples. Speak positive and know that you are somebody!
Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
#21. Maybe something is wrong with me, but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.
Marion Bartoli
#22. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
-Elinor Dashwood
Jane Austen
#23. The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them. The Superclass, everyone's dream, a world without shadows or darkness, where yes is the only possible answer to any request.
Paulo Coelho
#24. I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.
Steve Nash
#25. It's something you have to find from within. You have to keep pushing yourself from within. It's not about what other people think and what other people say. It's about what you want to accomplish and do you want to go out there and be prepared to beat everyone you play or face.
Tiger Woods
#26. Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.
Margaret Mahy
#27. Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.
Manuel Toharia-Cortes
#28. If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
Victoria Justice
#29. That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it.
Anna Nicole Smith
#31. We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.
Laverne Cox
#32. The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton
#33. If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
Richard Bach
#34. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#35. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Marcus Aurelius
#36. It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.
Chip Kelly
#37. I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.
Gong Li
#38. Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.
Sara Seager
#39. Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.
Noel Coward
#40. But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
James Frey
#41. We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we're faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart's a stubborn organ.
Kim Harrington
#42. Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.
Jeff Bezos
#43. You can always create your own experience of life in a beautiful and enjoyable way if you keep your love turned on within you- regardless of what other people say or do.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#44. Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
Sivananda
#45. You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix
#46. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.
Douglas Adams
#47. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#48. So you'll have to just trust me when I say that you are worthy, important, and necessary. And smart. You may ask how I know and I'll tell you how. It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do. Other,
Jenny Lawson
#49. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.
Miguel Ruiz
#51. I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.
Lindsey Vonn
#52. The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
Vernon Howard
#53. People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.
Emma Forrest
#54. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.
Andrew Roberts
#55. Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person
William Golding
#56. Why would you want to act, anyway?" was Seth's take on the subject. "Stand there and say other people's words, let everybody else tell you what to do ... Actors are just beautiful puppets.
Rainbow Rowell
#57. People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.
George Eliot
#58. By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.
Chuck Palahniuk
#59. If you believe the good stuff that people say then you have to believe the bad stuff and then you allow yourself to be on a roller coaster of what other people think. So I think you try to find the good in the bad and the bad in the good and balance yourself and stay on an even keel.
Ashton Kutcher
#60. The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
Martha Beck
#61. Now we determine each other's worth by asking, 'What do you do?' If you say 'nothing', people move away from you as if you're a corpse.
Ruby Wax
#62. 95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do.
Stephen King
#63. What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
#64. Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of what I say. But People who are one of the two think I'm the other and at the end get confused totally.
Auliq Ice
#66. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#67. We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
Hal Holbrook
#68. If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.
Sri Chinmoy
#69. I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.
Nina LaCour
#70. They say hell is other people. I believe that. But what I didn't know until now is so can heaven be.
Ella James
#71. I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.
Richard Ayoade
#72. I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.
Nicole Richie
#73. What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.
Andre Leon Talley
#74. I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
Margot Asquith
#75. I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.
Lily Collins
#76. Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.
Karen Elson
#77. All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.
Osamu Dazai
#78. People always say that they want to understand so that they can believe. But in MY reality it's just the opposite. I believe because I DON'T understand. I HAVE to believe, because there's no other way to explain what I'm seeing, feeling, or experiencing.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#79. Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.
Joe Hill
#80. When people say that students at elite schools have a sense of entitlement, that is what they are referring to: the belief that you deserve more than other people because your SAT scores are higher. Of course, your SAT scores are higher because you have already gotten more than other people.
William Deresiewicz
#81. I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
George A Tice
#82. What is perceived as normal. That makes it other people's failings. Deficits. Not yours. Who the hell sets the standards, huh? Who gets to say how we are supposed to be? Or who we are supposed to be? And how dare anyone make you feel inadequate for being who you are? It's not okay. It pisses me off.
Jessica Park
#83. I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.
Colm Toibin
#84. You can learn a lot from letting other people talk, and just listening to what they have to say.
Meg Cabot
#85. When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
Robert Barry
#86. The biggest mistake most people make when it comes to listening is they're so focused on what they're going to say next or how what the other person is saying is going to affect them that they fail to hear what's being said.
Travis Bradberry
#87. I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.
Violette Leduc
#88. Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
Paul Feig
#89. I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
George Meyer
#90. I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.
Kendall Jenner
#91. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#92. I always say leave things at the door. Whether it's at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the day away. Keep persevering, stick to yourself. Don't do what other people ask, do what you want!
Jenna Ushkowitz
#93. All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbor knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?
William Butler Yeats
#94. Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they ... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.
Bill Gates
#95. If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone is trying to say the same things and that the writer is only a man who says out loud what other people think or whisper.
Eugene Ionesco
#96. What does time have to do with anything? When two people have that kind of connection and you both can relate and help each other, like I know you both do now ... who the hell cares about how long you've been dating? I say, when you know, you know.
Loni Flowers
#97. Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
David R. Ellis
#98. I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.
Brene Brown
#99. And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
Orson Scott Card
#100. You will speed up your growth by being selfish. So imagine that the people you're looking at can actually take care of themselves. And if you ask for what you want and trust that the other person will say yes or no powerfully, it will make things very interesting.
Neil Strauss
