Quotes by American Authors - Page 150

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale Hurston
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Holly Ketchel
What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.
Ethel Percy Andrus
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
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
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Rose Pastor Stokes
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus
In real love you want the other person's good.
Margaret Anderson
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
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anaïs Nin
Cruelty is the only sin.
Ellen Glasgow
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
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger
When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.
Marianne Moore
To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
Kate Braverman
You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.
Theodore C. Speers
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Make the world better.
Lucy Stone
Charity begins at home and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard
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
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
Miriam Beard
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
Marya Mannes
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
Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.
Elsie de Wolfe
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
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.
Stephen S. Wise
[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
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
Ann Bancroft
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
L. E. Landon
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
Marilyn Vos Savant
[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
Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.
Sarah Winnemucca
Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.
Louise Bernikow
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
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
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
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman
The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive nothing can be understood.
Mary Ritter Beard
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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
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
Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
Alice Childress
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
Margaret Bourke-White
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.
Mary Kay Ash
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
To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.
Minna Antrim
Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.
Zora Neale Hurston