Quotes by Authors - Page 157

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 is the royal road to learning.
Jessamyn West
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
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
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
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
A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
Anonymous
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
When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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
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
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
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
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
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
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
Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
Charles F. Dole
Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.
Anonymous
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie
Kindness causes us to learn and to forget many things.
Madame Swetchine
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
Therese of Lisieux
Sympathy is the charm of human life.
Grace Aguilar
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
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
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others
Alice Duer Miller
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
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Elsa Maxwell