Helping Quotes

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.

Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy the atomic energy of the spirit.

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

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

He gives twice who gives promptly.

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.

Youth condemns maturity condones.

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

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

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

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

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.

Reform is born of need not pity.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

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

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

What its children become that will the community become.

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

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

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

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.

Where our bread is concerned it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned it is a spiritual matter.

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

Teaching was the best way to learn.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

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.

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.

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

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

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.