People Quotes - Page 4

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

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth.

Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.

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

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

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

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Bible

God loveth a cheerful giver.

Bible

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Eva Peron

In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.

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

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Louise Bernikow

You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.

Anonymous

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Sarah Winnemucca

[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.

Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Teresa of Avila.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Marilyn Vos Savant

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.

Mary Augusta Ward

Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.

Margaret Atwood

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.

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