Quotes by American Authors - Page 152

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
Charles F. Dole
Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
George E. Woodberry
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Prentice
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.
Ann Plato
It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.
Gertrude Schweitzer
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Marlene Dietrich
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast it only gets an R rating but if God forbid a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others
Alice Duer Miller
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
I'm a competitive person but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
Geraldine Ferraro
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave-and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
Alice Childress
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another it's a very deep matter.
Alice Childress
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Marian Wright Edelman
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Elsa Maxwell
In a great romance each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
Gertrude Stein
I never fight except against difficulties.
Helen Keller
It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.
Marya Mannes
To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.
Lauren Hutton
As perfume to the flower so is kindness to speech.
Katherine Francke
I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.
Barbara Bush
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.
Pearl Bailey
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
Woodrow Wilson
There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that's selfishness.
Will Rogers
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville
Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Erich Fromm
It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
Faye Wattleton
The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.
Bessie Rowland James
No matter what accomplishments you make somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.
Dorothy Height
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Nikki Giovanni
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Elizabeth Fuller
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
Marian Wright Edelman
If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Elbert Hubbard
When you first learn to love hell you will be in heaven.
Thaddeus Golas
We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.
Mark Twain
The devil's name is Dullness.
Robert E. Lee
When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Though I know he loves me tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale
Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
When two people decide to get a divorce it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another but a sign that they have at last begun to.
Helen Rowland
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
If it hurts it isn't love.
Chuck Spezzano