Looking for the best and inspirational Trevor Noah quotes?
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian and media personality host of “The Daily Show” since 2015. He is also an author, actor, and producer and widely known as the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central and has been a stand-up comedian for over ten years.
He was born in 1984 in Johannesburg to a white South African and a black Kenyan father. Her grandmother raised his mother after her parents divorced when she was five years old. As an up-and-coming comedian, he became the first stand-up comic on Rolling Stone magazine’s cover. In 2011, he released Trevor Noah: The Autobiography, which became a New York Times Bestseller.
His rise as a comedian came after hosting MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out” and became one of the most successful comedians worldwide on “The Daily Show.”
Here are Some wonderful quotes of his that are bound to change your thoughts and make you a better person.
23 Inspirational Trevor Noah Quotes
“If you laugh with somebody, then you share something.”
“Don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.”
“Looking at how successful all the Kardashian women are, I don’t blame Bruce Jenner at all.”
“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”
“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most.”
“As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups…I’ve never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don’t have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.”
“You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that’s not how people are.”
“Comedy is a great tool. We are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.”
“Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.”
“You have to work a bit harder to offend me because I’m from the home of some of the best racism in the world. I’m a snob when it comes to racism.”
“Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.”
“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
“You’ll have a few bruises and they’ll remind you of what happened and that’s okay. But after a while, the bruises fade and they fade for a reason. Because now, it’s time to get up to some s**t again.”
“Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings – whether it’s views or the things you’re doing in your life, your relationships – and trying to find the places where you improve on those.”
“If this comedy thing doesn’t work out, I’ve always got poverty to fall back on.”
“I don’t think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It’s easy to break through, but I heal fast.”
“Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling.”
“The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.”
“We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others because we don’t live with them.”
“But the real world doesn’t go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it’s not happening to you, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.”
“That awkward moment when you are sitting next to people who gossip too much that you are even scared of leaving them cause you know that you are next.”
“If this comedy thing doesn’t work out, I’ve always got poverty to fall back on.”
