Quotes by Authors - Page 156

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
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser
When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.
Marianne Moore
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
George Eliot
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
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
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Sir Thomas Browne
Charity begins at home but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
Miriam Beard
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
In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.
Richard Baxter
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
Marya Mannes
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
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
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
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
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
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothy Solle
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.
Stephen S. Wise
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
Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.
Margaret Atwood
Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.
Mary Augusta Ward
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
L. E. Landon
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
Marilyn Vos Savant
Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
Miriam Makeba
[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
You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.
Anonymous
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
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
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
Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
Alice Childress
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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
I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.
Mary Kay Ash
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
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
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
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
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
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