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How about doing something unselfish today? - motivate4me.com Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation - HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Christmas day broadcast, 2011 Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit - HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Christmas day broadcast, 2011 Social media can meet someone's need for encouragement at the moment of need - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ The only person you should ever compare yourself to is the person you used to be - Chelss @sayingsforgirls When someone can make you see this broken world as beautiful, they are worth keeping around - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ It doesn't matter where you go in life, what you do, or how much you have. It's who you have beside you - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ What we think, we become - Margaret Thatcher Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't - Margaret Thatcher Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it - Nick Morgan, communication coach I do have a story, unlike any other story, for it is mine, I crafted it from my experiences. I lived it as one can only live their own life, if only I could capture it in my hands and pass it on to those not yet born and let them know who I am, the decisions I made and why I made them - Richard James, Managing Director, ViewU Productions Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them - Herman Van Rompuy, EU President (2011) Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions, They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves - Herman Van Rompuy, EU President (2011) Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance - Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician (1936 - 2011) Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position - Toyotomi Hideyoshi It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others - Dalai Lama Your past may influence, but does not completely define, the person you now are - 'Self-Esteem, An Inside Job' by Sandra Abell & Janice Napoleon Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Dance is the language of the soul - Martha Graham Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light - Groucho Marx God gives the nuts but he does not crack them - German proverb Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were - unknown Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian - Shari R Barr Pretending to be happy when you're in pain is just an example of how strong you are as a person - Chelss @sayingsforgirls Take the time to talk to people, and be a human being. Be easy being you... - Katharine Dever @kdever People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, then when they try and succeed - Bob Moawad, author and motivational speaker The miracle of self esteem is it can change lives forever - Paul V Harris, survived burns to 85% of his body, @paulvharris I dare you to become the person you were born to be - Paul V Harris, survived burns to 85% of his body, @paulvharris The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too - Eckhart Tolle People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime - Debbie @ImSimplyDebbie If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere - John Ahrends @Ziggets I would not wish to have died the person I was - Lord (Philip) Gould, New Labour strategist (30.3.1950 - 6.11.2011) In modern life the motivation of an individual, of an organisation of a political party is just completely central in evaluating trust - Lord (Philip) Gould, New Labour strategist (30.3.1950 - 6.11.2011) A person is a person through other persons - Archbishop Desmond Tutu (describing African Ubuntu philosophy) No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else - Charles Dickens The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out - James Arthur Baldwin (quoted by New York Mayor Michael R Bloomberg at New York's 9/11 10th anniversary commemoration, Ground Zero, 11 September 2011) Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important - Janet Lane In the busyness of each day keep our eyes fixed on what is real and important in life and help us to be generous with our time and love and energy Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying' - Daisy Waugh, author and journalist, Sunday Times magazine (10 October 2010) Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate - Barnett Brickner We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do - Linda Blairs, psychologist, writing in The Times (9 March 2010) In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life - Nelson Mandela, letter to Winnie Mandela (1 February 1975) There is more to human life than comfort, entertainment and the avoidance of suffering - Clifford Longley, author, broadcaster and journalist Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbour; act as though you did. When you are behaving as though you loved someone, you will presumably come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn you will find yourself disliking him less - C S Lewis Sadly, society leads you to believe that you learn by hardship. Not so. Learning through accepting unconditional love is far more elegant - Gabriella Paolini @FocusedOnNow The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are - Joyce Meyer You cannot make someone love you, but you can be someone who can be loved - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves - Gandhi Remember that failure is an event, not a person - John Ahrends @Ziggets When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself - unknown You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth - Billy Graham A person starts to live when he can live outside himself - Albert Einstein People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel - Maya Angelou (American author) If you make two people happy... one of them is probably you - motivate4me.com You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted - Ruth E. Renkl Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health - Henri-Frédéric Amiel Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition - Arthur Rubinstein, composer and pianist (1887 - 1982) There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want - Dave Carpenter, author, inspirational speaker Every women deserves a man who looks at her every day like the day he first realised he was in love with her! - Anna @AnnaBOnTheMove We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact - Rev Richard Hall You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible - Anton Chekhov If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work - Khalil Gibran Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and natural philosopher (1749-1832) Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln A smart girl knows how to love. A smarter one knows who to love - Summer Smith @summersmith90 (2011) I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent - Marilyn Monroe Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none - William Shakespeare The beauty of love is, whether near or far, you can love from wherever you are - Aine Belton (Author, speaker, spiritual teacher, & founder of the Global Love Project) The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them - Publilius Syrus People make you happy, not money - Rachel on motivate4me.com Money can buy happiness when you spend it on others - motivate4me.com You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give - motivate4me.com A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed - Proverbs 11:25 Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves - John Ahrends @Ziggets The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything - motivate4me.com The happiest couples never have the same character. They have the best understanding of their differences - @LoveQuotes Happy days are made by happy people. Happy people are made by choice - Sally Huss I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls - Audrey Hepburn For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people - Audrey Hepburn We all look more attractive to others when we're happy - motivate4me.com Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness - Bertrand Russell, philosopher and social critic Because of deep love, one is courageous - Lao Tzu Sex, exercise and simply having a conversation seem to be when people are happiest - Benhealth magazine (January 2011) The most important sex organ is... the brain - unknown I am who I am because of everyone - Orange TV advert (2008) One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered - Michael J Fox Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement - Phil Harding, motivational coach, author & management consultant, in "Motivate me, motivate you" available via motivate4me.com It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle - motivate4me.com I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that - Baroness Julia Neuberger (BBC 1 Politics Show, 9 March 2008) What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be - George Marshall, author of 'Carbon Detox' (writing in the Metro newspaper, 9 January 2008) When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger - Gordon Brown, acceptance speech on formally becoming Labour Party leader, 24 June 2007 There must be so much talent and imagination that goes unrecognised because people just don't see it - Liz Smith, actress, interview with Metro newspaper (27 March 2007) We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue - David Cameron, Conservative Party Leader, interview in 'Green Futures', October 2006 Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims - Sir Edmund Hilary If you catch too many fish, the best place to store them is in another person's stomach - proverb Be kinder than necessary. Everyone you meet has some kind of problem you don't know about - motivate4me.com Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible - Dalai Lama Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around - Leo Buscaglia There's so much that we need to share, send a smile and show you care - from the song 'Give A Little Bit' by Supertramp Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian novelist The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other people - Aristotle A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance - Chinese Proverb Respect is an interesting phenomenon: it can be given, it can be earned, but it can't be bought, forced or demanded - Miranda Kennett, independent coach (2008) Respect is not an option - Gabriella Paolini @FocusedOnNow Don't envy... Emulate. Don't be jealous... Be inspired. What's possible for anyone, is possible for you... Make it happen! - Kyle T Garrett Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it - Helen Keller, author, activist & lecturer (1880-1968) A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it - Edward Steichen (photographer and painter) Faces are the most interesting things we see - David Hockney, artist Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up - Pablo Picasso The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people - Theodore Roosevelt You don't have to be harmonious on everything, just one thing, to get along with someone - Bono (Paul David Hewson), rock singer and activist (2005) Do for others as you would have them do for you - Luke 6:31 Here is a simple rule of thumb for behaviour: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you; then grab the initiative and do it for them! - Luke 6:31 "The Message" Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?" - Tommy Sheridan, former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party (2007) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and natural philosopher (1749-1832) The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people - Isobelle Carmody (Australian author) When you throw dirt, you lose ground - Texan proverb Never dull your shine for somebody else - Tyra Banks Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others - Cicero If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back - Mike Delevante, Businessman, Orlando, USA Misfortune shows those who are not really friends - Aristotle He who hath many friends hath none - Aristotle Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things - motivate4me.com Friends are the sunshine of life - John Hay Life is nothing without friendship - Cicero Be yourself; everyone else is already taken - Oscar Wilde Goodness is the only investment that never fails - Henry David Thoreau If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822) Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend - Albert Camus ...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability - Sally Brampton, novelist and journalist (2005) You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you - Dale Carnegie In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act - Sally Brampton, novelist and journalist (2005) Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour - Hubert H Humphrey Your neighbour's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you - Miguel de Unamuno Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile - Albert Einstein If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed - Albert Einstein Poverty is not natural; it is man-made - Nelson Mandela (2005) It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and raconteur (1921-2004) It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong - Leo Roskin You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one - unknown Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth - N Eldon Tanner Interdependence is a higher value than independence - Stephen Covey There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires - Nelson Mandela Obtaining happiness is better than seeking pleasure - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ Happiness is an unexpected hug - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful - Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993), preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve - Grenville Kleiser, American author (1868-1953) Appreciation motivates - motivate4me.com Who will you compliment, appreciate or help today? - Sandra Abell @SandyAbell Motivation will always beat mere talent - motivate4me.com When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other - Alan Alda Laughter is an instant vacation - Milton Berle The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose - James Arthur Baldwin The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance - Albert Einstein The less you talk, the more you're listened to - Abigail Van Buren ...be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry - James 1:19 Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon - Joyce Meyer An angry father is most cruel towards himself - Publilius Syrus A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him - Galileo Galilei You must look into people, as well as at them - Lord Chesterfield People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people - Colin Powell, US Secretary of State 2001-2004 Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior - unknown Elegance is an attitude - Longines advert (2011) Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are - unknown One life is worth no more or less than any other - Melinda Gates, philanthropist and wife of Bill Gates (2005) In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight - Hugh Massingberd, Obituaries Editor, Daily Telegraph (1986-94) Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important - T S Eliot It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice - unknown Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree - Marian Wright Edelman A person who talks about his inferiors, hasn't any - Hawaiian proverb Folks never understand the folks they hate - James Russell Lovell (1862) Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for! - Joyce Grenfell, actress and comedienne (1910 - 1979) Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires - Allan and Barbara Pease (authors: 'Why men don't listen & women can't read maps') Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished - John Gray (author: 'Men are from Mars Women are from Venus') Men primarily need a kind of love that is trusting, accepting and appreciative. Women primarily need a kind of love that is caring, understanding and respectful - John Gray (author: 'Men are from Mars Women are from Venus') Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres - 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7 (New International Version) You don't have to be 'perfect' to be beautiful or to be loved - Love & love poetry exhibition, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery (February 2008) You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly - Sam Keen I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them - Mae West Kissing power is stronger than will power - Abigail Van Buren A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years - Rupert Brooke I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love - Whitney Houston Man is not interesting without some imperfection - Soichiro Honda My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring - Prince William at 21 (June 2003) Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government - John Prescott How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure - Emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121 - 180) No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such - Emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121 - 180) If you don't visit the bad neighbourhoods, the bad neighbourhoods are going to visit you - Thomas Friedman, global analyst for the New York Times It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women - Queen Elizabeth II A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child - unknown By seeing differently, we do differently - James Hillman If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself - Norman Vincent Peale Be the change in the world you want to see - Gandhi Action expresses priorities - Gandhi To teach is to touch lives forever - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ By indulging in unfavourable views of mankind we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain - Walter Landor If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance - J. John, evangelist Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) The more a man knows, the more he forgives - Catherine the Great Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that does - Margaret Mead, Anthropologist We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you - Terry Waite, former hostage for 5 years in Beirut One ought to be just before one is generous - Winston Churchill A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed - Proverbs 11:25 There was a man, they called him mad. The more he gave, the more he had - John Bunyan Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them - Dalai Lama The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds - William Shakespeare Love sought is good, but given unsought is better - William Shakespeare If you only love the loveable, do you expect a pat on the back? - Luke 6:32 "The Message" Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there - Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish - Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one - Mother Teresa Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person - Mother Teresa All works of love are works of peace - Mother Teresa When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace - Jimi Hendrix Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love - Aristotle Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach - Winston Churchill The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel - George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people - George Bernard Shaw It is in the shelter of each other that the people live - Irish proverb There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes - William Bennett Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young - Fredric March Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do - Myrtle Auvil A man will love a woman for who she is. A boy will love a girl for what she looks like - Chelss @sayingsforgirls Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back - Arthur Rubinstein, composer and pianist (1887 - 1982) Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile - unknown Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul - St. Augustine Beauty awakens the soul to act - Dante Alighieri Love is the best part of life - Suzi Quatro He who has forgiven little loves little - Luke 7:47 The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - Gandhi Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and raconteur (1921-2004) To be loved, you must be lovable - Italian proverb Some people never say the words "I love you", it's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say "I love you", but like a child they're longing to be told - Annie Lennox (Something So Right) The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age - Aldous Huxley A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience - Doug Larson One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see - Bob Seger (No Man's Land) One of the most difficult things is not to change society, but to change yourself - Nelson Mandela People don't resist change. They resist being changed - Peter M Senge He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own - Confucius People whose main concern is their own happiness seldom find it - unknown The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out - Chinese proverb He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity - Confucius We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other - Michael Howard Build fences around people and you will get sheep - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ What's done to children, they will do to society - Karl Menninger Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another - Marva Collins Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants - John Gardner The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist" - Maria Montessori You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once - Polish Proverb The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother - Theodore Hesburgh We do not exist for ourselves - Thomas Merton When an old person dies, a whole library dies, because everything was written in his mind - West African proverb We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you - Jeff Warner All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference - Voltaire Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing - Quincy Jones Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned - Peter Marshall Friendship is essentially a partnership - Aristotle The only way to have a friend is to be one - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) A good friend is cheaper than therapy - motivate4me.com My friends are my estate - Emily Dickinson A friendship that can end, never really began - Publilius Syrus A friend in power is a friend lost - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation - Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887) Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy - Chogyam Trungpa Our lives are inextricably linked by the common thread of humanity. If we break it, we are all undone - unknown Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it - Swedish proverb People need touch, caring, someone to listen and validate them, a purpose in life and connections - Sasha Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that - Diana, Princess of Wales At a touch of love everyone becomes a poet - Plato All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection - Samuel Taylor Coleridge There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted - Diana Dors It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life - Anthony Robbins In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person - Margaret Anderson How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world - Anne Frank I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill - Edward Appleton I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod - Winston Churchill THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind? - Alan Redpath, Mutual Encouragement Fellowship Assumptions are the termites of relationships - Henry Winkler If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them - Shakti Gawain If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people - Virginia Woolf Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together - Bill Clinton (2001) Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity - World Health Organisation constitution, 1946 Hygiene is two thirds of health - Lebanese Proverb Health is better than wealth - proverb Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will remember - Chinese proverb The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back - Abigail van Buren Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honour - Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887) Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking - H Jackson Brown (Jnr) Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands - Anne Frank If happiness is your mode of travel, it will be your state on arrival - motivate4me.com Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it - Jacques Prévert The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up - Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest - Mark Twain I can live for two months on a good compliment - Mark Twain One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art - Oscar Wilde There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge - Friedrich Nietzsche Learning is not compulsory . . . neither is survival - Dr W Edwards Deming, American management and total quality guru (1900 - 1993) Watch your words and hold your tongue; you'll save yourself a lot of trouble - Proverbs 21:23 "The Message" A quiet tongue shows a wise head - Irish Proverb The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behaviour affect the rights and well being of others - Sharon Anthony Bower It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit - Harry Truman Valuing diversity: You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note - Doug Floyd People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know - Tom Hatcher, Victoria, British Columbia Showing you care is better than saying you care - motivate4me.com Some people care too much, I think it's called love - Winnie the Pooh If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is not an island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them - Francis Bacon The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom - James Allen The cyclone derives its powers from a calm centre. So does a person - Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993), preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving - Amy Carmichael I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver- Maya Angelou (American author) The best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love - William Wordsworth The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention - Oscar Wilde Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love - Lao Tzu Kindness is wisdom - Philip James Bailey, poet (1816-1902) The highest form of wisdom is kindness - Linda Berman Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people - Norman Vincent Peale The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour - Hugh Massingberd, Obituaries Editor, Daily Telegraph (1986-94) How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it - Elliston Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty - unknown The love we give away is the only love we keep - Elbert Hubbard A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self - Charles Dickens Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value - Albert Einstein Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves - Carl Jung I didn't want my child to grow up with hatred because hatred brings hatred - Alice Herz-Sommer, pianist and Theresienstadt concentration camp holocaust survivor, at age 103, The Guardian (13 December 2006) English people are so polite, and this politeness is not superficial. The English respect each other more than others. They are cheerful and helpful and I admire their humour. English humour is not laughing, it is distance. They observe life and always stay stoic - Alice Herz-Sommer, pianist and Theresienstadt concentration camp holocaust survivor, at age 103, The Guardian (13 December 2006) To live is not just to survive, but to thrive with passion, compassion, some humour and style - Maya Angelou (American author) Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness - Napoleon Hill Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others - Phil Harding of philharding.net, motivational coach, author & management consultant I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from - Richard Branson Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results - Dennis Wholey Be someone's reason to smile! - self-motivational website motivate4me.com A warm smile is the universal language of kindness - William Arthur Ward A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if you have crooked teeth - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, A good face is a letter of recommendation - - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it - Emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121 - 180) A gentle answer turns away wrath; but a harsh word stirs up anger - Proverbs 15:1 Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty - Proverbs 16:32 Let's go hand in hand, not one before another - William Shakespeare (The Comedy of Errors)
Risk ridicule - smile at strangers, talk to shop assistants - Global Directory Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day - H Jackson Brown (Jnr) I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time - Doris Day (Radio 4 'Today Programme' interview, 18 August 2011) Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness - Publilius Syrus Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down - Jimmy Durante The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway - Henry Boye If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble - Bob Hope A loving heart is the truest wisdom - Charles Dickens Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want - Jonathan Swift The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? - Jean De La Bruyère Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much - Erich Fromm You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good - Jackie Ballard, Director General, RSPCA, January 2003 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed - Napoleon Hill The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do - Charles Clarke MP, March 2003 What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork - Pearl Bailey How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are" - Frederick L Collins Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold - Nelson Mandela (Nobel Peace Prize lecture, 1993) The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food - Russian proverb Why are the poor poor? Better to ask "Why are the rich rich?" - philharding.net/quotes-corner/ The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world - Robert Orben The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization - Herbert Marcuse Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind - Charles L. Lucas Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? - Erich Fromm Life is an endurance test, so why be ashamed of your age? - P K Shaw At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box - Italian proverb Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine - Anthony J D'Angelo May your neighbours respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you, and heaven accept you - 'Shot for me' by Aubrey Drake To the world you may be just somebody, but to somebody you may just be the world - motivate4me.com
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