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Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted  this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
— Mary Field Belenky
Reform is born of need  not pity.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered  for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people  there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
— Mary Parker Follett
"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty  but subtle hostility.
— Rose N. Franzblau
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
— Lou Ann Walker
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
— Dorothy Gilman
When God made up this world of ours  He made it long and wide  And meant that it should shelter all  And none should be denied.
— Carrie Jacobs Bond
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them  to provide some light along the way.
— Diana, Princess of Wales
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way  completely on its own feet.
— Isadora Duncan
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help  that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.
— Anna Julia Cooper
A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person  whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
We have to improve life  not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
— Dorothy Height
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
— Adrienne Rich
First  teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.
— Viola Spolin
If you want a baby  have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
— Jessamyn West
When anything gets freed  a zest goes round the world.
— Hortense Calisher
If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
— Liz Carpenter
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it  rediscovering with him the joy  excitement  and mystery of the world we live in.
— Rachel Carson
We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
— Ninette de Valois
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
— Libby Gelman-Waxner
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy  the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
— Emma Goldman
I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.
— Clara McBride Hale
When a person is down in the world  an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap  it consoles  it distracts  it excites  it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
— Anonymous
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
— Amy Alcott
Generosity gives assistance  rather than advice.
— Vauvenargues
Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do  rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
— Elias L. Magoon
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
— Baroness Edith Summerskill
Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented  having the most imagination and sympathy  these are the first ones to get killed off.
— Brenda Ueland
With every deed you are sowing a seed  though the harvest you may not see.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing  but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
— Dolores Huerta
What its children become  that will the community become.
— Suzannea LaFollette
A child is fed with milk and praise.
— Mary Lamb
Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
— Phyllis McGinley
Live and let live is not enough  live and help live is not too much.
— Orison Swett Marden
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
— Sa'di
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education  all politics can do is keep us out of war.
— Maria Montessori
Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
— Josh Billings
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
— Maria Montessori
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.
— Frank A. Clark
What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts  stamped  imprinted  eternally seen.
— Cynthia Ozick
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
— Grace Paley
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up  but to support him after.
— William Shakespeare
Where our bread is concerned  it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned  it is a spiritual matter.
— I. D. Douglas
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God  in his infinite mercy  has seen fit to place us  to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life  whatever it may be.
— Ann Plato
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done  and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
— Ann Richards
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
— Muriel Spark
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry  for instance  still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially  it takes over your spirit.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
— Jessamyn West
Teaching was the best way to learn.
— Edna Gardner Whyte
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
— Colleen Wilcox
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
— Oprah Winfrey
If you feed a man a meal  you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food  you feed him for a lifetime.
— Peace Pilgrim
People will support that which they help to create.
— Mary Kay Ash
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches  but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.
— Mary Kay Ash
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him  but to call out his best energy  that he may be able to bear the burden.
— Phillips Brooks
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action  so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
— Henry Ford
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Hold up to him his better self  his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
— Eleanor H. Porter
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman  but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
— Mary Parker Follett
Once you wake up thought in a man  you can never put it to sleep again.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
— Maria Montessori
To know one's self is wisdom  but to know one's neighbor is genius.
— Minna Antrim
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it  it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
— George Eliot
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach  in their own way.
— Ida Applebroog
There are no little events in life  those we think of no consequence may be full of fate  and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered  and of small importance.
— Amelia Barr
I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important  and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.
— Mary Kay Ash
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
— Margaret Bourke-White
Like snowflakes  the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
— Alice Childress
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
— Diana, Princess of Wales
Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive  notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important  that I matter!
— Marion D. Hanks
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture  a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
— Mary Bateson
Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.
— Mary Field Belenky
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom  security  and the enjoyment of opportunity.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive  nothing can be understood.
— Mary Ritter Beard
Nature is just enough  but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The motto should not be: Forgive one another  rather understand one another.
— Emma Goldman
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often  others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason  or do not value the things we value  or are not interested in what interests us.
— Isabel Briggs Myers
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.
— Evelyn Scott
It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them  no matter what facts develop later on.
— Dorothy Uhnak
Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.
— Sarah Winnemucca
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind  it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
— Helen Keller
Africa has her mysteries  and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
— Miriam Makeba
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
— Teresa of Avila
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
— Marilyn vos Savant
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— L. E. Landon
Truth has never been  can never be  contained in any one creed or system.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Sons branch out  but one woman leads to another.
— Margaret Atwood
It's really important that  as women  we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
— Ann Bancroft
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
— Mary Bateson
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something  I can neither give nor receive.
— Dorothy Solle
We are rich only through what we give  and poor only through what we refuse.
— Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need  the remainder is needed by others.
— Saint Augustine
[Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so  you share your lives with people.
— Ella Baker
For we must share  if we would keep  that blessing from above  Ceasing to give  we cease to have  such is the law of love.
— Richard C. Trench
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen  but great-ens  his life.
— Stephen S. Wise
Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.
— Albert M. Wells
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
— Simone de Beauvoir
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled  we must give of that which we have.
— Margaret Becker
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
— Heda Bejar
You can give without loving  but you cannot love without giving.
— Amy Carmichael
Measure thy life by loss instead of gain  Not by the wine drunk  but by the wine poured forth.
— Harriet King
Be pretty if you can  be witty if you must  but be gracious if it kills you.
— Elsie de Wolfe
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources  it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help  give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship  give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.
— E. N. West
I was hungered  and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty  and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger  and ye took me in: I was naked  and ye clothed me: I was sick  and ye visited me: I was in prison  and ye came unto me.
— Anonymous
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
— Marya Mannes
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
— Max Beerbohm
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
— Bible
God loveth a cheerful giver.
— Bible
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
— Eva Peron
In necessary things  unity  in doubtful things  liberty  in all things  charity.
— Richard Baxter
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
— Angela Merici
Did universal charity prevail  earth would be a heaven  and hell a fable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
— Miriam Beard
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
— Alexander Pope
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
— Simone Weil
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish  must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering  or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
— Clara Barton
In faith and hope the world will disagree  but all mankind's concern is charity.
— Alexander Pope
There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.
— C. H. Dodd
Charity begins at home  and usually stays there.
— Elbert Hubbard
Charity begins at home  but should not end there.
— Thomas Fuller
Sow good services  sweet remembrances will grow from them.
— Madame de Stael
Charity looks at the need  not at the cause.
— German proverb
Make the world better.
— Lucy Stone
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
— Sir Thomas Browne
He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
— English proverb
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love  there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
— Bette Davis
Even if it's a little thing  do something for those who have need of help  something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
— Albert Schweitzer
Give  if thou can  an alms  if not  a sweet and gentle word.
— Robert Herrick
Two thirds of help is to give courage.
— Irish proverb
It was only a sunny smile  And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light  it scattered the night  And made the day worth living.
— Anonymous
The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers  the more they did for us.
— Debbi Fields
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?
— Claudian
Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
— Jacqueline Schiff
You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.
— Theodore C. Speers
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful  than to miss a chance to do good?
— Denis Diderot
Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.
— Du Coeur
To be one woman  truly  wholly  is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
— Kate Braverman
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
— Mother Teresa
Simply give others a bit of yourself  a thoughtful act  a helpful idea  a word of appreciation  a lift over a rough spot  a sense of understanding  a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind  garnished in kindness out of your heart  and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.
— Charles H. Burr
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
— George Eliot
When one is frank  one's very presence is a compliment.
— Marianne Moore
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
— Frank Tyger
Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.
— Emmanuel
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
— Simone Weil
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
As long as you keep a person down  some part of you has to be down there to hold him down  so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
— Marian Anderson
Cruelty is the only sin.
— Ellen Glasgow
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
— Anais Nin
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
— A. E. Housman
Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right  there is no love. There is only masked fear.
— Bonaro Overstreet
In real love you want the other person's good.
— Margaret Anderson
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
One cannot make oneself  but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Giving presents is a talent  to know what a person wants  to know when and how to get it  to give it lovingly and well.
— Pamela Glenconner
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
— Rose Pastor Stokes
He who does not live in some degree for others  hardly lives for himself.
— Michel de Montaigne
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Love is a choice-not simply  or necessarily  a rational choice  but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
— Carter Heyward
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together  they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.
— Peace Pilgrim
What I spent  is gone  what I kept  I lost  but what I gave away will be mine forever.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
In helping others  we shall help ourselves  for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
— Flora Edwards
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
— Holly Ketchel
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
— Zora Neale Hurston
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
— Robert J. McCracken
Giving opens the way for receiving.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Fill the cup of happiness for others  and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
— Rose Pastor Stokes
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help  the desire to serve.
— Marianne Williamson
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The closer I'm bound in love to you  the closer I am to free.
— Indigo Girls
True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
— William J. H. Boetcker
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
— Brooke Astor
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love  then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
— Marianne Williamson
When their children flourish  almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
— Sara Ruddick
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune  we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
— George Matthew Adams
To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.
— Gerald B. Fitzgerald
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
— Boniface VIII
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles  satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful  kindly things for others.
— B. C. Forbes
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
— John Andrew Holmes
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
— Henry David Thoreau
Help your brother's boat across  and your own will reach the shore.
— Hindu proverb
Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only  you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development  which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
— Charles W. Eliot
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
— Lydia M. Child
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests  we easily become despondent. But when we work for others  our efforts return to bless us.
— Sidney Powell
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
— Sir Philip Sidney
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
— Luther Burbank
We make a living by what we get  but we make a life by what we give.
— Norman MacEwan
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life  but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks  you are a pretty rich man.
— Seth Parker
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
— Albert Einstein
Unless we give part of ourselves away  unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them  we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.
— Harold Taylor
To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty  assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence  is to lament the loss of that which we possess  and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.
— Thomas Fitzosborne
As the purse is emptied  the heart is filled.
— Victor Hugo
Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer  your muscles stronger  and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.
— Prentice Mulford
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood  inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method  and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
— Anonymous
We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
— William Ellery Channing
When you learn to live for others  they will live for you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
— Gretta Brooker Palmer
The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.
— Earl Allen
We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
— Maurice Hulst
When you cease to make a contribution  you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To help all created things  that is the measure of our responsibility  to be helped by all  that is the measure of our hope.
— Gerald Vann
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— Sir James M. Barrie
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
— Mark Twain
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
— Dale Carnegie
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on  one doesn't die  and the only thing that one can do  is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace  but it brings the dawn nearer.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
Avarice hoards itself poor  charity gives itself rich.
— German proverb
The hearts that never lean must fall.
— Emily Dickinson
The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere  and within your reach.
— Marcia Wieder
Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs  all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.
— Hindu proverb
We not only need to be willing to give  but also to be open to receiving from others.
— On Hope
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles  and that help must come from without.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
The smartest thing I ever said was  "Help Me!"
— Anonymous
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee  or in his soul.
— Rona Barrett
The healthy  the strong individual  is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
— Rona Barrett
My only advice is to stay aware  listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
— Judy Blume
Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there  Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.
— Kristin Hunter
We can't help everyone  but everyone can help someone.
— Dr. Loretta Scott
Trouble is part of your life  and if you don't share it  you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
— Dinah Shore
Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
— Ruth Gordon
I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.
— Keith Gann
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
— Shirley Chisholm
We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.
— Marie Rambert
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth  rolling prosperity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone  at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
— Elbert Hubbard
If I can stop one heart from breaking  I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson
It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.
— Richard C. Chewning
If I am not for myself  who will be for me? If I am not for others  who am I for? And if not now  when?
— Talmud
Believe  when you are most unhappy  that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain  life is not in vain.
— Helen Keller
If we could all hear one another's prayers  God might be relieved of some of his burden.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other  being good to each other.
— Erica Jong
Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.
— Paul Flemming
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others  and in their pleasure takes joy  even as though it were his own.
— Johann von Goethe
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man  and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
— Sir Walter Scott
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
— Alfred Adler
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
— Hugh Prather
And they said one to another  We are verily guilty concerning our brother  in that we saw the anguish of his soul  when he besought us  and we would not hear.
— Bible
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors  for the expression of all his history  and his wants.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the son of his own works.
— Cervantes
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
— Luther Burbank
One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.
— Olin Miller
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
— Woodrow Wilson
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride  and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended  but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
— Plutarch
With him for a sire  and her for a dam What should I be  but just what I am?
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
The child is father to the man.
— William Wordsworth
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
— John Ciardi
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
— Austin O'Malley
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
— Thomas Overbury
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
— Anonymous
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee  A clover  anytime  to him Is aristocracy.
— Emily Dickinson
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
— Samuel Butler
When I want a peerage  I shall buy one like an honest man.
— Lord Northcliffe
It runs in the blood like wooden legs.
— Cheshire Saying
Noble fathers have noble children.
— Euripides
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit  neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
— Matthew
He's a chip o' th' old block.
— William Rowley
Clever father  clever daughter  clever mother  clever son.
— Russian proverb
No man is a hero to his own wife  no woman is a wife to her own hero.
— Anonymous
The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled  The flame that lit the battle's wreck  Shone round him o'er the dead.
— Felicia D. Hemans
Hero-worship exists  has existed  and will forever exist  universally among mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
No man is a hero to his valet.
— Mme. de Cornuel
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hail  ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
— Joseph Hopkinson
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection  and will  in turn  be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
— Washington Irving
See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets  beat the drums!
— Thomas Morell
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
— George Bernard Shaw
Play the man  Master Ridley  we shall this day light such a candle  by God's grace  in England  as I trust shall never be put out.
— Bishop Hugh Latimer
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
— Will Rogers
Heroes are created by popular demand  sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot  the ride that Paul Revere never finished  the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.
— Gerald Johnson
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
— Sigmund Freud
When the heroes go off the stage  the clowns come on.
— Heinrich Heine
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man  but he is brave five minutes longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals  the love of another human being  the raising of a family or personal growth.
— Samuel Branden
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
— Golda Meir
Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
— Randall Jarrell
All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.
— Bible
This thing of being a hero  about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
— Will Rogers
One murder makes a villain  millions a hero.
— Bishop Beilby Porteus
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone  the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
— George Bernard Shaw
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
— E. M. Forster
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
— R. D. Hitchcock
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
— Goethe
After 15 years of work I have achieved  as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower  the unity of the German nation  and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
— Adolf Hitler
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print  the main thing is still to make history  not to write it.
— Otto von Bismarck
History is the devil's scripture.
— Lord Byron
In essence  the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
— John Fowles
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
— W. H. Auden
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
— Aldous Huxley
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions  and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
— Dean William R. Inge
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
— Eric Hoffer
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
— Saki
When the historian  Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history  he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy  they first make mad with power. 3. The mills of God grind slowly  but they grind exceeding small. 4. When it is dark enough  you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The past is a foreign country  they do things differently there.
— Anonymous
Very few things happen at the right time  and the rest do not happen at all  the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
— Herodotus
Most history is a record of the triumphs  disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute  inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
— Philip Howard
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
— George W. Ball
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past  historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
— Samuel Butler
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals  and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.
— E. M. Forster
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy  and it always feels uncomfortable.
— John W. Gardner
History is philosophy learned from examples.
— Dionysius of Halicarnassus
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
— Roberto Rossellini
Don't brood on what's past  but never forget it either.
— Thomas H. Raddall
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
— Will Durant
I never realized that there was history  close at hand  beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
— Stephen Leacock
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
— Louis Fischer
The past is a work of art  free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
— Max Beerbohm
Any event  once it has occurred  can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
— Lee Simonson
History is not another name for the past  as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
— A. J. P. Taylor
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
With malice toward none  with charity for all  with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right  let us strive on to finish the work we are in  to bind up the nation's wounds.
— Abraham Lincoln
Give the historians something to write about.
— Propertius
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
— Ronald Wright
War makes rattling good history  but Peace is poor reading.
— Thomas Hardy
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
— Arnold Toynbee
History is past politics  and politics present history.
— John Seeley
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
— Will Durant
When great changes occur in history  when great principles are involved  as a rule the majority are wrong.
— Eugene V. Debs
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles  bills and proclamations.
— John Barth
History  n: an account mostly false  of events  mostly unimportant  which are brought about by rulers  mostly knaves  and soldiers  mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
The historical sense involves a perception  not only of the pastness of the past  but of its presence.
— T. S. Eliot
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
— Lord Acton
History is more or less bunk.
— Henry Ford
I have no history but the length of my bones.
— Robin Skelton
History is a pact between the dead  the living  and the yet unborn.
— Edmund Burke
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
— Sioux proverb
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
— Dylan Thomas
The world's history is constant  like the laws of nature  and simple  like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
— Friedrich von Schiller
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
— Voltaire
We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.
— S. J. Hayakawa
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
— Henry Kissinger
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
— John Still
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
— Joseph Stalin
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
— Winston Churchill
History is something that never happened  written by a man who wasn't there.
— Anonymous
History  a distillation of rumor
— Thomas Carlyle
The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces  the chief points in the process of history.
— Edward Bernstein
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is properly no history  only biography.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes  follies  and misfortunes of mankind.
— Edward Gibbon
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
— Napoleon
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
All history is a lie!
— Sir Robert Walpole
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
— H. G. Wells
For a man's home is his castle.
— Sir Edward Coke
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
— George Norman Douglas
He is happiest  be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
— Goethe
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
— Anonymous
Peace and rest at length have come  All the day's long toil is past  And each heart is whispering "Home  Home at last!"
— Thomas Hood
The foxes have holes  and the birds of the air have nests  but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
— Matthew
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
— George Moore
Home is where the heart is.
— Pliny
'Mid pleasures and palaces through we may roam  Be it ever so humble  there's no place like Home.
— J. Howard Payne
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known  euphemistically  as the stately homes of England.
— Virginia Woolf
I am mortal  born to love and to suffer.
— Friedrich Holderlin
I am a man  nothing human is alien to me.
— Terence
Few men are of one plain  decided colour  most are mixed  shaded  and blended  and vary as much  from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
— Lord Chesterfield
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else  he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
— Finley Peter Dunne
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible  wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
— Joseph Conrad
Man is at the bottom an animal  midway  a citizen  and at the top  divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches  borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors  and a misfit from the start.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
— George Orwell
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
— Robert Browning
Man  as we know him  is a poor creature  but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
— Dean William R. Inge
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
— Robert Burns
Many people believe they are attracted by God  or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
— Dean William R. Inge
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
— Aldous Huxley
The cultivated man  wise to know and bold to perform  is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure  convenience to liberty  and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
— Hermann Hesse
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I  my lords  am on the side of the angels.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape  self-named Homo Sapiens.
— Desmond Morris
We fancy men are individuals  so are pumpkins  but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind  as from the weather.
— Vauvenargues
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being  to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
— Immanuel Kant
The race of man  while sheep in credulity  are wolves for conformity.
— Carl van Doren
Men are cruel  but man is kind.
— Rabindranath Tagore
In this world  a man must either be anvil or hammer.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
— Konrad Lorenz
A human being isn't an orchid  he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
He was a man  take him for all in all  I shall not look upon his like again.
— William Shakespeare
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
— Westbrook Pegler
The strongest human instinct is to impart information  the second strongest is to resist it.
— Kenneth Grahame
God made him  and therefore let him pass for a man.
— William Shakespeare
Darwinian Man  though well-behaved  At best is only a monkey shaved!
— W. S. Gilbert
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself  the maker of his life  his reward  his punishment.
— Anonymous
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed  the only animal that is never satisfied.
— Henry George
Most people in action are not worth very much  and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
— James Baldwin
People are too durable  that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves  they last too long.
— Bertolt Brecht