Steve Jobs Quotes

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

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.

Everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man— Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

If thou wouldst help others, deal with them as though they were what they should be

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

I've always seen the best in people.

Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.