Human Being Quotes

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Time, Thankful

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Happy, Woman, Human

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings

Best, Yourself, Fight

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Person

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

Respect, Human, Ask

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Greatest, Human

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee

Human, Honest, Child

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama

Anger, Human, Brain

I am just one human being.
Dalai Lama

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

End, Daily, Depression

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda

God, Human, Everything

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou

Home, Long, Human

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Important, Human, Soul

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran

Beautiful, End, Human

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

Human, Light, Sometimes

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte

Human, Free, Bird

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil Gibran

Human, Makes, Seem

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Yourself, Human, Give

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
Marilyn Monroe

Gay, Human, Humanity

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
Marilyn Monroe

Human, Control, Creative

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann

Human, Until, Full

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Work, Human

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

Life, Greatest, Human

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human, Him, Eyes

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

Human, Made, Poverty

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Human, Precious, Rare

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato

Human, Two, Capable

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Yourself, Human, Giving

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem

Woman, Human, Treat

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