Human Nature Quotes - Help Realize Your Destiny

Human nature Quotes

What follows are various human nature quotes to help lighten the mode but also to offer insight and encouragement.

There are many quotes on our nature and quotes about our nature available elsewhere. Here I hope these human nature quotations help you in your quest to boost your human nature and/or provide a few moments of wisdom and insight into life.

I hope you enjoy them and benefit from them.

Quotations about human nature

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles. Charles Chaplin

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Francis Quarles

Brevity - the sister of talent. Anton Chekhov

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. Hermann Hesse

By nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart. Confucius

Human kind cannot bear very much reality. T.S. Eliot

Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden. Mark Twain

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. North American proverb

To kick with sore toe only hurts foot. Japanese proverb

From my notebooks:

The following are taken from my notebooks. They will I hope complement the quotations given above as well as reveal a little more about my life and my thinking about life.

Some are idle thoughts and comments on life and the life we lead. Others could one day be developed further into articles or reports. I feel that they are related to the 'human nature quotes' theme.

Human nature quotes - from my notebooks

How can I be so blind? We often miss the obvious and don't feel it happens to us all. It shows we are human.

What can tame our spirit? Another can dominate it, the power of personality, character or will. But the spirit still within is waiting for the chance to express itself. Our 'job' in life is so to do. To allow our spirit expression.

One good turn deserves another.

Think how special it is to meet a new friend.

Everything matters.

Survival is a gift, prosperity is a gift. Enjoying life is a grace. Fulfilling your potential is your aim.

I can't believe I've done it. A big achievement against the odds - I'm over the moon. Just go and enjoy yourself.

No profit? Not interested. Don't always look for the monetary gain.

Always a rush - a rush to get on, to be somewhere, to do something.

Empty gestures are without substance, and without meaning, support or substance.

To the busy and effective more is given.

Life often leaves things to your discretion.

When you are young surprises are little challenges and adventures. The longer you live the fewer surprises you get - and the less surprising is anything that happens.

Cannot get anything done without rules.

Are you a dreamer? Are you based in reality? Do you have dreams? Have dreams by all means, but also be real. Good to have ideas but we need to touch base, to be earthed, to be real.

Save perfection for others, while doing the best you can. That is always worth your while. Giving things your best shot. Go that extra mile. Look out for others as well as yourself. Strive to be the best that you can be. And, just be.

Miracles of life. Breath. Mind. Spirit. The body. Choice. Will. Your humanity. All are parts of what makes you such a special, unique and treasured human being.

I hope you have enjoyed this 'human nature quotes' page, and enjoy the rest of the website. Martin