Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Marshall, Thurgood

Best Quotes about Humankind

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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

Smith, Adam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Socrates

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Terence

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

Rogers, Will

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

Calvino, Italo

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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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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

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Robert, Fulghum

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

43.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

Walters, J. Donald

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

50.

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

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