People Quotes - Page 3

As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson

Cruelty is the only sin.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

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

In real love you want the other person's good.

Margaret Anderson

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.

Pamela Glenconner

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Rose Pastor Stokes

He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.

Michel de Montaigne

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Ethel Percy Andrus

In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Claudian

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Jacqueline Schiff

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Theodore C. Speers

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.

Du Coeur

To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Simply give others a bit of yourself a thoughtful act a helpful idea a word of appreciation a lift over a rough spot a sense of understanding a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind garnished in kindness out of your heart and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

Charles H. Burr

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Emmanuel

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

William Hazlitt

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.

In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

Charity begins at home and usually stays there.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

Charity looks at the need not at the cause.

Make the world better.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Sir Thomas Browne

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

English Proverb

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

Give if thou can an alms if not a sweet and gentle word.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

George Santayana

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.

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

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