Welcome to Someone Quotes, where the profound wisdom and insights of various individuals are celebrated and shared. Throughout history, countless individuals from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and professions have left behind words that resonate with truth, inspiration, and reflection. Whether it’s philosophers, artists, scientists, or leaders, the power of a well-crafted sentence can transcend time, offering solace, motivation, and perspective to those who encounter it.
At Someone Quotes, we believe in the transformative power of words. From the timeless wisdom of ancient philosophers to the contemporary insights of modern thinkers, our collection spans across epochs and disciplines, capturing the essence of human experience and understanding. Each quote is a window into the mind and soul of its author, offering a glimpse of their unique perspective on life, love, success, and everything in between.
Explore our curated selection of quotes to find inspiration, motivation, or simply a moment of reflection. Whether you seek guidance, encouragement, or simply a thought-provoking insight, let the words of others guide you on your journey of self-discovery and growth. Discover the beauty and depth of human expression through the voices of the past and present, and let their words ignite your own creativity and passion.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf
A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they’re rich, who really wasn’t brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they’re rich, and they spend too much time on their hair. John Waters
Control your own destiny or someone else will. Jack Welch
Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry Rollins
When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying here you throw this away. Mitch Hedberg
Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife’s hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.’ My kids almost had shirts made up that said, ‘Teri Hatcher is not my mom.’ Howie Long
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results. Tony Robbins
Lots of people want 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
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you. Katie Lee
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. Woody Allen
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Gary Ryan Blair
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them. Joyce Giraud
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Dr. Seuss
A word of advice is, when you judge someone, it doesn’t define the person that you’re judging. It defines you. Tulisa
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. Sally Field
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. Denzel Washington
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. Louis XIV
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. Albert Einstein
There’s always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that’s the reason to get up earlier or stay up later. Tim Tebow
When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream. John Lennon
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart. Cesar Chavez
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. Anne Hathaway
Try to see the good in others. When you’re tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth. Marianne Williamson
You can’t make someone learn something – you really can’t teach someone something – they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will. Daniel Greenberg
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? Thich Nhat Hanh
My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do. Lil Baby
Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else! Conchita Wurst
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. Elon Musk
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer
A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy. Kerry Kennedy
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. Louis Farrakhan
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain
When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I’m a fierce queen – and they know it, too. Alyssa Edwards
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. Henri Nouwen
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg
A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role. Yehuda Berg
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better. Allen Iverson
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. Michelle Obama
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. Julia Roberts
No matter what you do, people are always going to have something negative to say about it. You could spend your life constantly trying to seek people’s approval and validation, but there is always going to be someone that has something negative to say about what you’re doing. Tana Mongeau
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares. Debi Mazar
Cricket is such a sport that you get to learn something from someone every day. Ravindra Jadeja
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. Georgia O’Keeffe
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Anne Frank
I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down. Drake
God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. Charles Stanley
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. Helen Keller
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. Benjamin Disraeli
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them. Ricky Gervais
People often only see one side to someone’s personality, but there are levels. Ross Lynch
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. Wade Boggs
In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. Hillary Clinton
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others. Barun Sobti
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. Marilyn Monroe
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Gerard Way
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. William James
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him. Mike Tyson
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. Les Brown
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Princess Diana
People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome! Kanye West
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. Mason Cooley
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. Malorie Blackman
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. Morgan Freeman
My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face. Simon Cowell
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. Elie Wiesel
You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. Anthony Bourdain
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done. Amelia Earhart
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. Rumi
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. Billy Wilder
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever. Raini Rodriguez
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. Lou Holtz
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach
