95 Most Inspiring Quotes on Humanity

 

“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.” ― Benjamin Haydon

 

“One love, one heart, one destiny.” ― Robert Marley 

 

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” – Joseph Joubert

 

“A man’s house is his castle.”― Sir Edward Coke

 

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

 

“You must not lose faith in humanity.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

“A place for everything and everything in its place.”― Samuel Smiles

 

“It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.” ― Elvis Presley

 

“It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” ― Rick Riordan,The Lightning Thief

 

“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.”  – Margaret Atwood

 

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy

 

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

 

“All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.”― Aesop

 

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

 

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

 

“Who are we as human beings if we ignore the suffering of others?” ― Anonymous

 

“As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens.” ― E. Pellham 

 

“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr

 

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

“Be a good human being, a warm hearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.” – Dalai Lama 

 

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ― Albert Camus

 

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

 

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”  ― James Ray 

 

“People have become educated but have not become human.” – Abdul Sattar Edhi 

 

“Be kind to all creatures. This is the true religion.”  – Buddha   

 

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”  ― George Carlin  

 

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson  

 

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Being human is given. But keeping our humanity is a choice.”  – Anonymous

 

“A good spouse and health is a person’s best wealth.” ― Ben Franklin

 

“The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind.” ― Anonymous

 

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ―MahatmaGandhi

 

“Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.” ― Albert Einstein

 

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

– I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
– I shall fear only God.
– I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
– I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
– I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.“ ― Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always humans.” – Donald L. Hicks

 

“As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.”― Sanskrit

 

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” ― Woodrow Wilson

 

“How many disasters do we need to unite humanity.” – Loesje

 

“Bread, oil, Salt and Heart.”  ― Albanian 

 

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” ― Warren Buffett

 

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 

“If you cannot find faith in humanity, be the faith in humanity.” – Anonymous

 

“Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree.” ― Native American Saying 

 

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ― Muhammad Ali

 

“Humanity, take a good look at yourself, inside. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.”  – Hildegard of Bingen

 

“Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt 

 

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” ― Göran Persson

 

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa 

 

“I love humanity.”  – Albert Einstein

 

“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.”  – Anonymous

 

“Cold hands, warm heart.” ― V.S. Lean

 

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.” ― Alphonse Karr

 

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

 

“Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.” ― Confucius

 

“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.” ― Ben Franklin

 

“Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

“Humans see what they want to see.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

 

“Let’s not lose hope in humanity, instead live to help others. We can make a difference.”― Anonymous

 

“Curses like chickens, come home to roost.” ― Chaucer 

 

“The average man doesn’t like trouble and danger.” ― Mark Twain

 

“God save us from people who mean well.” ― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

 

“Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.” ― Rumi

 

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” ― Bible

 

“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.” ― Anatole France

 

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ― Gloria Steinem

 

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life.” ― Anonymous

 

“Don’t bypass a town where there’s a friend.” ― Malagasy

 

“I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 

“Who so lives for humanity must be content to lose himself.” ―  Octavius Brooks Frothingham

 

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity: and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

 

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” ― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

 

“By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.” – Vironika Tugaleva

 

“Eat coconuts while you have teeth.” ― Singhalese

 

“The human race is governed by its imaginationThe human race is governed by its imagination” ― Napoleon

 

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King

 

“Every day of your life is a page of your history.” ― Arabic

 

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” ― Albert Camus

 

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi 

 

“Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called old.” ― Icelandic 

 

“The problem with people is that they’re only human.” ― Bill Watterson

 

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” ― C. JoyBell C.

 

“We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.” ― Bill Watterson

 

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela

 

“Fact is stranger than fiction.” ― Thomas Chandler Haliburton

 

“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.” ― William Howard Taft

 

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

 

“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”  – Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Glass, china and reputation are easily crack’d and never well mended.” ―  Ben Franklin 

 

“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.” ― Margaret Mead

 

“Love humanity? Start with one person.” – Gabriel Laub

 

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.” ― Mark Twain

 

“Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, and religion.” – John Arnos Comenius

 

“Good memories are our second chance at happiness.” ―  Queen Elizabeth II