1. Anybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. MLK Jr.
2. All you have shall one day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. Kahill Gibran
3. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you grow up in greater love for each other. Mother Teresa
4. The best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth
5. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. Edward Everett Hale
6. At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.'
Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection. Mother Teresa
7. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. William Penn
8. Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve Jobs
9. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
10. Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do. Maya Angelou
11. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Walter Anderson
12. Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan
13. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
14. 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
15. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
16. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
17. Keep trying. Stay humble, trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
18. If not me, who? If not now, when?
19. 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
20. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or even ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. Denis Watley
21. I followed her lead by following no one's lead at all. M.L.
22. God doesn't bless you by feeding your greed.
23. Never satisfied, always content.
24. Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college, anyone who had ever been able to sustain a good work, had had at least one person and often many who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others. Fred Rogers
25. There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something you accept no excuses, only results.
26. Commitment is doing the things you said you’d do, long after the mood you said it in has left you. Bear Grylls
27. A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not why ships were built. John Shedd
28. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
29. Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh.
30. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles Swindoll
(Longer Version): The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
31.Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. Kiana Tom
32. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
29. Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh.
30. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles Swindoll
(Longer Version): The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
31.Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. Kiana Tom
32. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
I like how you're gradually expanding your blog and adding new stuff to it. That keeps it different and intriguing!
ReplyDeleteHere are a few quotes that I like:
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." - Oscar Wilde
"La mélancolie n’est que de la ferveur retombée." - André Gide ( knowing how much you talked in French class, I feel that you could use a translation :D - “Melancholy is only a shattered enthusiasm.”)
"Failure is not falling down. It is the refusal to get up"
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” - Charles Bukowski
“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." - Ivan Panin
And one of my favorites: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde.
I'll can post some more when I have more free time (hopefully this weekend)
Talk to you soon :)
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I really like quotes from Einstein. Although my favorite of his is “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
ReplyDelete- The guy who sits in front of you
Here are some more, as promised:
ReplyDelete“Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. . . . It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. . . . People have forgotten this truth. But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. . . .” - from "Le Petit Prince"
Some Paulo Coelho quotes (If you haven't read any of his books, I recommend starting with "The Alchemist", it's a light and easy read, and very interesting :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel) ):
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."
"There are three things that a child can teach an adult: To be happy for no reason; to be always busy doing something; And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants"
"Dreams are the language of God"
"Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his. Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.' Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is."
"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots." - Victor Hugo
"Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love." - John Steinback
“There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness” - Nietzsche
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Tony Snow
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Willa Cather
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joupert
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl Buck
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Kindness is ALWAYS fashionable
Amelia Barr
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Thanks guys! These are great additional quotes, I'll sort through them and find several to add on.
ReplyDeleteThanks again :)