Motivational Quotes

Humankind

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

- Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, John Andrew

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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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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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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

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

Robert, Fulghum

19.

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

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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Reik, Theodor

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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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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

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Doren, Carl Van

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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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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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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.

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.