Helping Quotes - Page 4

It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

[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.

For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

Richard C. Trench

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.

Stephen S. Wise

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

Albert M. Wells

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.

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.

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.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

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

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Margaret Bourke-White

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

Alice Childress

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana

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

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

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

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive nothing can be understood.

Mary Ritter Beard

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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

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.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

Edna Gardner Whyte

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

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.

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.

People will support that which they help to create.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

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

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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

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

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

Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.

Zora Neale Hurston

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Maria Montessori

To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Elias L. Magoon

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Baroness Edith Summerskill

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.

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.

What its children become that will the community become.

Suzannea LaFollette

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Mary Lamb

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

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

Orison Swett Marden

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Sa'di

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