Quotes about everyone
A collection of quotes on the topic of everyone, people, doing, likeness.
Quotes about everyone
“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
Interview on French talk show Quotidien (26 April 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUlTS87WGkw&t=682
“I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all”
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
Twitter response to anti-gay religious group Westboro Baptist Church picketing a One Direction concert (19 July 2013) https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/westboro-baptist-church-one-direction_n_3634663 <br class="br">Context: Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
Statement to the press (23 November 1991), the day before his death, as quoted at The Biography Channel http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/338:294/1/Freddie_Mercury.htm.
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Iranian mathematician
Interview with Research Fellow Maryam Mirzakhani | january 2008
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Anderson-Reagan Presidential Debate (21 September 1980) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29407 <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">Context: With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
Ariana Grande (1993) American singer-songwriter
Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192 (26 May 2017)
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Variant: I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Howl (1993-07-22).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
“Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
The Guardian, December 9, 1995, p. 2
“This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.”
Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
UN speech, June 2013
Context: Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.
“Everyone want to define love, but no one wish to practice it.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"As I Please," Tribune, (31 December 1943)
As I Please (1943–1947)
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
As quoted in Networking the Kingdom: A Practical Strategy for Maximum Church Growth (1990) by O. J. Bryson, p. 187; this is the earliest source yet found for this attribution.
Disputed
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Ian Maclaren (1850–1907) British theologian and writer
The British Weekly, 1897. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant: If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quoted in: Ingo F. Walther (1996), Picasso, p. 67.
Attributed from posthumous publications
“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
196
The Symposium
“I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.”
Bonnie Wright (1991) English actress, model, screenwriter, director and producer
Source: Time, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce ed. (2005), Volume 166, Pagina lxxx
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.
“Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Source: In the Sanctuary of the Soul: A Guide to Effective Prayer
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152
“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.”
Nicole Kidman (1967) Australian-American actress and film producer
“In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
Interview for Sounds Magazine on 17 July 1982. [Armed Combat, Sounds Magazine, 17 July 1982]
“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Maxim 39, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“Everyone who works with me calls me "Ma." I'm the motherly type.”
Jennifer Lopez (1969) American singer and actress
Interview http://web.archive.org/20000815073212/www.eonline.com/Celebs/Qa/Lopez2000/interview2.html for E! Online, 15 August 2000.
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
Philo (-15–45 BC) Roman philosopher
Attributed to Philo in How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir (1999) by Dan Wakefield. It has also been wrongly attributed to Plato and Ephrem the Syrian. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897. <br class="br"> Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/. <br class="br">Misattributed
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
Quoted in "The Long Path to Irena Sendler - Mother of the Holocaust Children" http://www.socwork.net/2006/1/historicalportraits/wieler, by Joachim Wieler Social Work & Society, vol. 4 (2006)
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
As quoted in "Headbanger's Ball" (10 December 1996), MTV Europe.
1990s
Magic Johnson (1959) American basketball player
Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html
“Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book One in the chapter 'Schizophrenia, as Predicted', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Der eitle, schwache Mensch sieht in Jedem einen Richter, der stolze, starke hat keinen Richter als sich selbst.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 34.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Salon interview (1997)
Context: All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
“This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
"And God Smiles," sermon preached at All Saints Church, Pasadena, California (6 November 2005)
Context: This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider. When Jesus said, "I, if I am lifted up, will draw..." Did he say, "I will draw some"? "I will draw some, and tough luck for the others"? He said, "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all." All! All! All! – Black, white, yellow; rich, poor; clever, not so clever; beautiful, not so beautiful. All! All! It is radical. All! Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Bush – all! All! All are to be held in this incredible embrace. Gay, lesbian, so-called "straight;" all! All! All are to be held in the incredible embrace of the love that won’t let us go.
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 3
Context: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have only three francs you are quite indifferent; for three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that. You are bored, but you are not afraid. You think vaguely, 'I shall be starving in a day or two--shocking, isn't it?' And then the mind wanders to other topics. A bread and margarine diet does, to some extent, provide its own anodyne. And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs--and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §3 : Personal Power, p. 190 (p. 165 in some editions). This famous passage from her book is very often erroneously attributed to Nelson Mandela. About the mis-attribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people."
Variant which appears in the film Coach Carter (2005): "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Variant which appears in the film Akeelah and the Bee (2006), displayed in a picture frame on the wall, attributing it to Mandela: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: Horns
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"Extracts from a Manuscript Notebook" (1949), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4 (1968)
“Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.”
Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
"The Coalmining Situation", Speech to the House of Commons (October 13, 1943) <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Source: Google books link https://books.google.com/books?id=hc8pAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT373&lpg=PT373&dq=%22if+anyone+says+anything+back+that+is+an+outrage%22&source=bl&ots=vQG7eKCVNO&sig=FgGJGUVc7MSNY3-hyQrYpC8tiOY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFEQ6AEwDWoVChMI-J-rpoiWyQIVF9tjCh2cLAel#v=onepage&q=%22if%20anyone%20says%20anything%20back%20that%20is%20an%20outrage%22&f=false
Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream
Source: Requiem for a Dream
“The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Variant: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 291 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&q=%22garbage+man%22#v=snippet&q=%22garbage%20man%22&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.”
Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence
Source: The Museum of Innocence
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932 (1973), p. 3
Source: Gift from the Sea
Context: I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.