Helping Quotes - Page 5

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Maria Montessori

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Maria Montessori

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

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

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.

Diana

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

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

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

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.

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.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

When anything gets freed a zest goes round the world.

Hortense Calisher

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

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.

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

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Ninette de Valois

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

Libby Gelman-Waxner

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.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Clara McBride Hale

When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Anonymous

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

Dr. Frank Crane

He gives twice who gives promptly.

Publilius Syrus

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Youth condemns maturity condones.

Josephine Preston Peabody

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

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

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Emmeline Pankhurst

With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Christina Baldwin

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

Margaret Deland

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

Reform is born of need not pity.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

Rose N. Franzblau

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

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

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.

Sir Arthur Helps

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

A kind word is like a Spring day.

Russian proverb

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

Kindness affects more than severity.

Aesop

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Sir James M. Barrie

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Anonymous

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

George E. Woodberry

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.

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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