Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Fuller, Buckminster

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

Fischer, Ernst

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

10.

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

Foucault, Michel

11.

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.

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

18.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

21.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

22.

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

23.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

France, Anatole

26.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

32.

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

Robert, Fulghum

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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 stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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

Caddy, Eileen

46.

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

50.

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

Socrates