Motivational Quotes

Humankind

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

- Rolf, Ida P.

Best Quotes about Humankind

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.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Gide, Andre

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.

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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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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.

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Twain, Mark

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

Terence

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Rogers, Will

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

Calvino, Italo

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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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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

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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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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A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Socrates