Mankind Quotes

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz

The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson

You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein

Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein

Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie