Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Twain, Mark

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

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.

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Steinbeck, John

13.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

14.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

15.

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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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Blake, William

17.

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

Bible

18.

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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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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

26.

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

Sumner, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

31.

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

Canetti, Elias

32.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Reichmann, W.J.

38.

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

Johnson

39.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

41.

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

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

42.

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

43.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

44.

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

Reagan, Ronald

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

Proverb, Turkish

47.

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

48.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

49.

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

50.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie