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

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.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Terence

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Sumner, Charles

13.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

14.

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.

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Gide, Andre

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

23.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

Bible

26.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

28.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

29.

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

30.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

31.

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

Doren, Carl Van

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

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

42.

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

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Smith, Adam

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

49.

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

50.

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

Lessing, Doris