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Daily Inspiration Quote by Tina Yothers

"A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place"

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There’s a bruised realism in Tina Yothers’ line that feels less like philosophy and more like a survival skill. She opens with a blunt overstatement - “people’s main motives... is to hurt as many people as they can” - the kind you arrive at after being disappointed enough times that nuance feels like a luxury. Coming from an actress who grew up in public, it reads as an afterimage of the entertainment machine: the gossip economy, the casual cruelty of commentary, the way an industry can turn competition into sport and other people into targets.

The sentence pivots on a small but decisive word: “but.” It’s not naive optimism; it’s a choice to keep living without giving cynicism total custody. “I think there’s enough good people” frames goodness as statistical, almost ecological. Not everyone is kind, not even most, but enough are. The world becomes “a good place” not because it’s inherently moral, but because it’s actively maintained - by helpers, caretakers, and the quietly decent people who counterbalance the loudest damage.

The intent is defensive hope: a refusal to let the worst actors set the terms of reality. The subtext is a warning about attention. If you stare too long at malice, it starts to look like the whole map. Yothers offers a simpler metric: look for the people doing repair. In an era that rewards outrage and elevates antagonists, her line argues that goodness isn’t a vibe. It’s an accumulation of ordinary interventions that keep the place habitable.

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Yothers, Tina. (n.d.). A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-times-peoples-main-motives-and-plan-in-86765/

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Yothers, Tina. "A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-times-peoples-main-motives-and-plan-in-86765/.

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"A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-times-peoples-main-motives-and-plan-in-86765/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Tina Yothers

Tina Yothers (born May 5, 1973) is a Actress from USA.

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