Quotes by American Authors - Page 151

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
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
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
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.
Mary Kay Ash
People will support that which they help to create.
Mary Kay Ash
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
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
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
Teaching was the best way to learn.
Edna Gardner Whyte
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
Jessamyn West
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards
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
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley
What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.
Cynthia Ozick
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Josh Billings
Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.
Orison Swett Marden
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
What its children become that will the community become.
Suzannea LaFollette
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
With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Elias L. Magoon
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
Amy Alcott
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
I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.
Clara McBride Hale
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
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
Libby Gelman-Waxner
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
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
If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
Liz Carpenter
When anything gets freed a zest goes round the world.
Hortense Calisher
If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West
First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.
Viola Spolin
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
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
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
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
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan
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
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
Dorothy Gilman
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
Lou Ann Walker
Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.
Rose N. Franzblau
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
Reform is born of need not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
Christina Baldwin
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.
Sydney J. Harris
The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
Vicki Baum
Youth condemns maturity condones.
Josephine Preston Peabody
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Mary Pettibone Poole
The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.
Dr. Frank Crane
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas