People Quotes - Page 5

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

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

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