Top 200 Quotes About Humanity (2025 Update)
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101. “All you need is love.”

— John Lennon

102. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

— Orson Welles

103. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

104. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

105. “No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

106. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

107. “Love people, not things; use things, not people.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

108. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

— Charles Dickens

109. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”

— Nelson Mandela

110. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

111. “No man is an island, entire of itself.”

— John Donne

112. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

— Maya Angelou

113. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

— Desmond Tutu

114. “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

115. “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.”

— William Butler Yeats

116. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

117. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

118. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

— Michelle Obama

119. “Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

120. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”

— John Donne

121. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

122. “Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.”

— Susan B. Anthony

123. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

124. “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

— Max Ehrmann

125. “Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

— Bertrand Russell

126. “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

127. “Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.”

— Michael Jackson

128. “Without volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.”

— Rosalynn Carter

129. “You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.”

— John Wooden

130. “Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

131. “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”

— Paul Farmer

132. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

133. “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”

— Brian Tracy

134. “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

135. “Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, “I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.” Say, “The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.””

— Swami Vivekananda

136. “There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.”

— Isaac Asimov

137. “There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.”

— Robert M. Hensel

138. “Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

139. “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”

— Fred Rogers

140. “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

141. “Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.”

— Simon Sinek

142. “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

— Tony Robbins

143. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the most terrible poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

144. “Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.”

— Warsan Shire

145. “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

146. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

— Henry David Thoreau

147. “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

148. “Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.”

— Maria Montessori

149. “Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

150. “More than machinery, we need humanity.”

— Charlie Chaplin