Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

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

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

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Casals, Pablo

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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.

14.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Calvino, Italo

18.

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

Mead, Margaret

19.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Lessing, Doris

23.

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

24.

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Smith, Adam

29.

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 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.

31.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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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

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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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

40.

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.

41.

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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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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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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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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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Adenauer, Konrad

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace