Top 100 Humanism Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Faith Quotes

2. “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Service Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

3. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Impact Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

4. “Imagine all the people living life in peace...”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Changing the World Quotes

5. “Bringing people together is what i call ‘ubuntu,’ which means ‘I am because we are.’ Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

— Desmond Tutu

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Peace Quotes

6. “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Being Yourself Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

7. “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Helping Quotes

8. “The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

9. “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

— John Donne

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Caring Quotes, Different Quotes

10. “To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.”

— Abraham Maslow

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Choices Quotes

11. “There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Smart Quotes

12. “Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Quotes About Humanity

13. “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Suffering Quotes, Rights Quotes

14. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Individuality Quotes

15. “In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

16. “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.”

— Abraham Maslow

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes

17. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

— Erich Fromm

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes

18. “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

19. “Think higher, feel deeper.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

20. “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Wise Quotes

21. “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

— Abraham Maslow

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Purpose Quotes

22. “If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Giving

23. “If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Suffering Quotes

24. “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Quotes About Feelings, Romantic Quotes

25. “Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Growth Quotes, Quotes About Skills

26. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes

27. “Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

Also featured in: Quotes About the World, Rights Quotes

28. “What one can be, one must be!”

— Abraham Maslow

29. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Joy Quotes

30. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About Heart

31. “We all do better, when we all do better.”

— Paul Wellstone

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Caring Quotes, Government Quotes

32. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Graduation Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Individuality Quotes

33. “I am me and I am okay.”

— Virginia Satir

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Individuality Quotes

34. “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Graduation Quotes

35. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Justice Quotes

36. “The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.”

— Rollo May

Also featured in: Healing Quotes

37. “Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”

— Hippocrates

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Morality Quotes, Healing Quotes, Habit Quotes

38. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Humility Quotes

39. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

— Randy Pausch

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

40. “Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Happy Quotes, Service Quotes, Quotes About Giving

41. “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Peace Quotes

42. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

— Ben Okri

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Healing Quotes

43. “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Truth Quotes, Love Is Quotes

44. “There is only one race, the human race.”

— Robert Sobukwe

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Diversity Quotes, Rights Quotes

45. “You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Harmony Quotes

46. “The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Humility Quotes

47. “When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

48. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Identity Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

49. “It’s a lie to think you’re not good enough. It’s a lie to think you’re not worth anything.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Identity Quotes

50. “If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won’t cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Kindness Quotes