Motivational Quotes

Humankind

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Humankind

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Sumner, Charles

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Einstein, Albert

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Robert, Fulghum

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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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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Murdoch, Iris

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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

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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 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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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Caddy, Eileen

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Weil, Simone

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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

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

Calvino, Italo

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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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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

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

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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.

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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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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Ruskin, John

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Smith, Adam

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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

France, Anatole

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Fuller, Buckminster