A stranger is a person who is unknown to another person or group. Because of this unknown status, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity and character can be ascertained. Different classes of strangers have been identified for social science purposes, and the tendency for strangers and foreigners to overlap has been examined. Stranger also means something that you aren’t familiar with. May these stranger Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of a connection.” Israelmore Ayivor
2. “I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.” Catriona Gray
3. “We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.” Robert Charles Wilson
4. “You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.” William H. McRaven
5. “Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker, the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.” Pope Francis
6. “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” William Butler Yeats
7. “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
8. “Advice is like a stranger–if welcome, he stays the night; if not welcome, he returns home that day.” African Proverb
9. “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” Shirley MacLaine
10. “Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you’ll impact others in an inspiring way.” Wayne Dyer
11. “It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.” Carol Burnett
12. “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
13. ” Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.” Leo Buscaglia
14. “It takes an incredibly special person to be willing to put his or her life on the line for a complete stranger. And to get up every morning, day after day after day, to do that, I think, is extraordinary.” Christopher A. Wray
15. “Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.” Deepak Chopra
16. “If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.” Saint Augustine
17. “Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.” Germaine Greer
18. “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” Alfred Adler
19. “Good things happen when you meet strangers.” Yo-Yo Ma
20. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” Melody Beattie
21. “The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.” Matthew McConaughey
22. “There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.” Eric Hoffer
23. “There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.” Richard Rodriguez
24. “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
25. “Everyone you meet in your life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.” Steve Pavlina
26. “If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbours, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.” Marsha Blackburn
27. “A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.” Stephen Elliott
28. “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Mark Twain
29. “Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.” Ani DiFranco
30. “Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.” Kurt Vonnegut
31. “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” Douglas William Jerrold
32. “In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlikable.” Robert Breault
33. “What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!” W. E. B. Du Bois
34. “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.” Barbara Bush
35. “Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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