Caring Quotes

Never does a person describe his own character more clearly than by his way describing that of others. ~Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter) ~ Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a civilized person to be polite to a beggar. ~Anonymous~ What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him, should be a matter of no importance. ~Oscar Wilde~ The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~Helen Keller~ (writer, lecturer, 1880-1968) Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. ~Woodrow Wilson~ We don't remain good if we don't always strive to become better. ~Gottfried Keller~ Character is simply habit long enough continued. ~Plutarch~ (ca. A. D. 100) Remember that your character is your destiny. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~ Caring means more than a concern for the well-being of others. It is a form of passion that generates commitment, and conviction that allows us to endure, persevere and persist until we overcome whatever obstacles may be in our way. ~Michael Josephson~ Make people believe what they think and do is important, and then get out of the way while they do it. ~ Jack Welch ~ (American Businessman Executive) Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. ~Oprah Winfrey~(TV talk-show host, actor, producer) Goodwill for a business is built by good goods, service and truthful advertising. ~Morrison Waite~ of

True patriotism is the service of all to all. ~Helen Keller~ Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It is the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings. ~Maya Angelou~ (poet, writer) The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ~Old proverb~ Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy. ~Lucy Lawless~ (actor) How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! ~Anne Frank~ (diarist, 1929-1945) Having fun is simply holding on to the joy of each day. It's looking up at the sky and taking a deep breath just because it feels good.The joy of being a kidis one that you can hold on to forever. ~Judith Harlan~(writer) Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~Henry James~ Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer~ Have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. That's what being young is all about. ~Ruby Dee~ (actor, poet) Encourage people to empower themselves. ~Oprah Winfrey~ Making a change in one person's life is what keeps me going. ~Amber Coffman~ (sixteen, founder of nonprofit for the homeless) If you have a bit of knowledge, a piece of information, or some love to give, you ought to give it up. ~Lauryn Hill~(singer) If you help others obtain their goals and desires, you in turn will obtain your own. ~Teresa M. Moisant~ (business executive) If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. ~Martina Navratilova~ (tennis player)

So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a very big dog very uncomfortable. ~Marian Wright Edelman~ (children's advocate, writer) If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa~ (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary) Our work as citizens is a lot like housework. It never ends. We can either wring our hands in despair or use them to roll up our shirtsleeves and try to find new ways to make a difference. ~Pat Schroeder~ (former U. S. congresswoman) The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ (1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist) You have to take your little piece of the world that needs to be worked on and do the best you can, whatever it is.You have to start small, at the beginning, and that's yourself .~Janet McCloud~ (Native American activist) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead~ (anthropologist, 1901-1977) Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~ Fyodor Dostoevski ~ (1821-1881, Russian Novelist) I think I make a smidgeon of a difference every day. That's my ultimate goal-on a daily basis to make a difference in somebody's life, even if it's just my own. ~Luana Lacy~ (probation officer) To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist) The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick. ~ Bernie S. Siegel ~ (American Doctor, Author, Lecturer) The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~ William Ralph Inge ~(1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London)

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ (1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist) You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist) Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. Don't fret about copping life's grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights. ~ Author Unknown ~ Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ~ Peace Pilgrim ~ (1908-1981, American Peace Activist) Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. ~ Leo Buscaglia ~ (American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author) Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~ (1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer) Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco ~ 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 ~ We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~ (1939-, American Lobbyist on Behalf of Children) When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. ~ Greg Anderson ~ (American Author of "The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness") Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. ~ Mother Teresa ~ (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt~ (1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA) Life is just a short walk from the cradle to grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. ~Alice Childress~ If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else. Chinese Proverb So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else' opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth. ~Buckminster Fuller~ (American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect "Geodesic Dome") And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people. ~Leo Tolstoy~ (1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher) Service is the rent you pay for room on this earth. ~Shirley Chisholm~ It is never too late to give up our prejudices. ~Henry David Thoreau~ (1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist) If you give, do it without boasting. ~Lillian Hellman~ We are defined by the way we treat ourselves and the way we treat other people. ~Oprah Winfrey~ Try to make the people you know happy. ~Alice Walker~ A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. ~Elbert Hubbard~ (1859-1915, American Author, Publisher) It's up to each of us to contribute something to this wonderful world. ~Eve Arden~

Invest in a human soul. Who knows? It might be a diamond in the rough. ~Mary McLeod Bethune~ How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. ~Stephen Covey~ (American Speaker, Trainer, Author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People") From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive. ~Molly Ringwald~ (1968-, American Actress) Nothing makes you like other human beings so much as doing things for them. ~Zora Neale Hurston~ Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to besafely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps~(1844-1911, American Writer) Two kinds of people on earth can be seen: the people who lift and the people who lean. ~Ella Wheeler-Wilcox~ Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ~Katherine Mansfield~ (1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author) Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. ~John Lennon~ (1940-1980, British Rock Musician) If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner ~ Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller~ (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer) Great people are those who can make others feel that they, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain~ (1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer) Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who DO love us. ~ Erma Bombeck ~ (1927-, American Author, Humorist) A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. ~ Jackie Robinson ~

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. ~ Dale Carnegie ~ (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer) Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ~George Sand~ Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~(1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist) The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~William Wordsworth~ Friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ~William Hazlitt~ 1823 People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves by without wondering. ~ St. Augustine ~(354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian) There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren ~ Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talent and accomplishments. ~Kelty~ Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ~ Buddha ~ Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley ~(1703-1791, British Preacher) Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. ~ Wilfred A. Peterson ~ "At every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy." ~Henri J. M. Nouwen~

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet~ (1612-1672, British Puritan Poet) An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. ~Lydia M. Child~ I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! ~Henry Drummond~ When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody or other. ~Keble~ Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean. ~Dag Hammarskjold~(1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.)