6,568 Quotes About Humanity

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.

It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.

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.

My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.

You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great.

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.