Motivational Quotes

Humankind

Man is an ape with possibilities.

- Andrews, Roy Chapman

Best Quotes about Humankind

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

11.

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

12.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

13.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

15.

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

16.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

18.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

19.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

20.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

23.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

25.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Caulfield, Holden

26.

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

Walters, J. Donald

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Quinet, Edgar

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

34.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

35.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

37.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

40.

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

41.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

42.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

45.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Doren, Carl Van

46.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Mayhew, Dr Edward

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

49.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman