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Motivational Quotes
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Marsha's favorite quotes for
inspiration, motivation and reflection for your personal
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Topics:
General Quotes
Women Quotes and
Proverbs
Inspirational Quotes
General
Quotes
"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time."
Pericles
"Everybody wants to be somebody, nobody want to grow."
Goethe
"Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way
out."
Will Rogers
"You can't do everything yourself. Hire the best to fill
the gaps or your life will fall through the gaps."
Marsha Petrie Sue
"Chance opportunities make us known to others and still
more to ourselves."
Rochefoucauld
"In prosperity you prepare for a change.
In adversity you hope for one."
Burgh
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon
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Women Quotes and Proverbs
"To avoid repeating the same energy-draining fights of the
past 30 years and accomplish something lasting, the
coherent self-empowered woman will learn to bypass
reactive, energy-draining stances. She will recognize it
is more intelligent and effective to do so. Taking a heart
stand facilitates a whole new level of power and renewal
by being the vehicle for actualizing core values, free of
mental and emotional reactiveness that add more noise to a
noisy system. Conscious heart intention is the first step,
derived from the intuitive link and balance between mind
and heart, increasing the power of both."
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
"If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's
authoritative."
Barbara Walters
"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real
enemy is women's denigration of themselves."
Betty Friedan
"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She
just did it backwards and in high heels."
Attributed to Linda Ellerbee, Ann Richards, and Faith
Whittlesey
"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world
without amputations."
Marge Piercy
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what
feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist
whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a
doormat."
Rebecca West
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly,
the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've
ever met."
Farrah Fawcett
"If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the
bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing." Mary
Frances Berry
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
Mae West
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to
preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform."
Susan B. Anthony
"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in
congress you know that the filibuster was invented by
men."
Clare Booth Luce
"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
"A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's
heart by his head."
Lady Marguerite Blessington
"Women are the real architects of society."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary
"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."
Edna O'Brien
"Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming
in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable
in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest
wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next-door is all the American
male could wish for--unless, by some miscarriage, he
should fancy human companionship."
Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to
succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have
what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it
takes."
Clare Boothe Luce
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want
something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher
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Inspirational Quotes
"There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small
kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each
person, the assurances of good things to come."
Lady Borton
"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."
Pema Chodron
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with
the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because
someday in your life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a
good deed in a weary world."
William Shakespeare
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows
that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is
no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that
joins to them."
Francis Bacon
"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach
the shore."
Hindu Proverb
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the
blind can read."
Mark Twain
"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you
dare to think."
Unknown
"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give
unasked, through understanding."
Kahlil Gibran
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the
rose."
Hadia Bejar
"Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions.
Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code."
Unknown
"The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts
of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate
small ones."
F. W. Robertson
"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
"Do good and care not to whom."
Italian Proverb
"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude
to you, not because they are kind, but because you are."
Unknown
"It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming
back to you."
Cort Flint
"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how."
Unknown
"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another
candle."
Unknown
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer
somebody else up."
Twain
"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as
unkind as if he had refused it."
Dante
"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it."
George Alliston
"Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first
to compliment, and first to forgive."
Unknown
"Nice, how we never get dizzy from doing good turns."
George Bengis
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small
ones surround us every day."
Sally Koch
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right
place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin
"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to
give one."
Unknown
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot
keep it from themselves."
James Matthew Barrie
"There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock."
Warren G. Harding
"Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness."
Unknown
"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly
you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in
many ways."
Zadik
"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
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If
you want to be happy, practice compassion."
The Dalai Lama
"Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the
recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
S. H. Simmons
"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is
good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy."
Randolph Ray
"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know
what they are going through, and they may need that smile,
and treasure it. "
Christine M. Huppert
"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever
in debt to those who are kind."
Malaysian Proverb
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what
we give."
Winston Churchill
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
Blaise Pascal
"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business
of life."
Samuel Johnson
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything
in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving
"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."
Katherine Francke
"Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon
throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving
kindness is such."
Confucius
"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."
Publilius Syrus
"It really is much easier to help people and causes than
what most people seem to think. You just go out and take
that first step and things start falling in place. If they
don't, you change direction, but you never pull over and
park!"
Jason Crowe, founder (at age 11) of The Cello Cries On,
Inc.
"If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word
you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind
word, would you be rich or poor?"
Nonpareil
"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict,
one ought to choose kindness, especially when a little
honesty is better than a lot."
Leroy Jack Syrop
"So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms.
An act of kindness enriches the heart of both the giver
and the receiver.
People who have received a little act of kindness so small
as a grain from another, tasted it and then, even if they
receive an unkind act or word bigger than a palm tree,
when they think of that little grain of kindness, the palm
tree of unkindness will disappear.
So powerful is the act of kindness. Let us plant it in the
centre of our hearts."
Br. Arockiam, kindness website builder
"If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it."
R. Foreman
"A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It
is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance...."
Jack Kornfield
"There's something wonderfully rewarding in being part of
an effort that does make a difference."
Brian O'Connell
"Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the
end of our fingertips."
Richard F. Schubert
"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our
deeds."
George Eliot
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this
life that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of
people convinced that they are about to change the world.
I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small
difference after another."
Ellen Goodman
"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't
discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what
you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you
do for others."
Danny Thomas
"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If
he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal
of what it is the world needs most."
Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those
little bits of good put together that overwhelm the
world."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."
Audrey Hepburn, when asked about her beauty secrets
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes
ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and
hostility to evaporate."
Albert Schweitzer
"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty
saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a
broken string."
George D. Prentice
"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act,
you have neglected much, and most of all yourself."
A. Neilen
"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a
beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort
the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind
feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such
abundance as they ought to be used."
Blaise Pascal
"Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words and kind deeds."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Samuel Johnson
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word
is never thrown away."
Sir Arthur Helps
"Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes,
these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting
their unseen battles."
John Hall
"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
"When you do a kindness for others with the purest of
intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of
you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm
betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have
to worry about giving too much of it away."
Dave, Community Organizer, FL
"[I have learned] about opening the heart, being more
understanding, more loving, kinder."
Barbra Streisand
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and
despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Kahlil Gibran
"I've found what's truly sacred in life's small
things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts
of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing
normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down
the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well.
You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know
the end result."
Sting
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened
the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be
cruel to be tough."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life,
and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass
it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our
lives!"
Betty, Community Organizer, WA
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness,
beauty and truth."
Albert Einstein
"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it
changes the world."
Harold Kushner
"After RAK Week, there is more laughter, more unity, less
gossip, more openness and honesty."
Peter, Teacher, NM
"Kindness generates pride, a sense of accomplishment, a
Hey, look what we did! feeling."
Pat, Teacher, PA
"Random Acts of Kindness has brought more meaning into my
life, and I am committed to help spread the word."
Carol, State Parent Facilitator, HI
"In a classroom where kindness is emphasized and
unkindness is not tolerated, students feel free to ask
questions."
Sherry, Teacher, MS
"When students are frustrated or get involved in put-down
behavior, Random Acts of Kindness works beautifully."
Kathy, Teacher, CA
"I decided to get involved with kindness because it is the
foundation of what a safe community is based on."
Rita, Education Administrator, CO
"Random Acts of Kindness is the most exciting thing I've
ever done. It has changed my life. People are so
receptive. It just grows and grows!"
Betty, Community Organizer, WA
"Kindness builds self-esteem. It provides students with an
opportunity to feel pride in who they are and in what they
do."
Janice, Teacher, NJ
"Kind deeds help empower children. They get to see a
direct connection between their deeds and the reactions of
others."
Peter, Teacher, NM
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
Aesop
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their
echoes are truly endless."
Mother Teresa
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something. I will not
refuse to do the something I can do."
Helen Keller
"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I
can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not
deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
William Penn
"Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or
you will never find it."
Epictetus (2nd century)
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute
before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank
"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants
kindness gathers love."
St. Basil (330-379), Greek religious leader
"Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he
doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be,
remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of
kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Scott Adams
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own
heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
The Dalai Lama
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by
being kind."
Eric Hoffer
"One of the most difficult things to give away is
kindness; it usually comes back to you."
Anonymous
"Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the
commandments."
The Talmud
"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is
to throw little torches out to lead people through the
dark."
Whoopi Goldberg
"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
Sophocles (447 BC)
"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
"Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are
traveling the dark journey with us."
Henri-Frederic Amiel
"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
William John Bennett
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a
difference."
Barbara DeAngelis
"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not
given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the
years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the
deed appears, Pass it on."
Henry Burton
"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the
world."
Mohammed
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound
together."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
Gandhi
"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
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and
despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Kahlil Gibran
"A little kindness from person to person is better than a
vast love for all humankind."
Richard Dehmel
"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in
thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates
love."
Lao-Tzu
"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes
up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
Charles Kuralt
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only
makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us
also to develop inner happiness and peace."
The Dalai Lama
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough
for courtesy."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
William Wordsworth
"Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth
part of the value of loving kindness. Loving kindness is a
freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is
luminous, shining, blazing forth."
Itivuttaka Sutta
"Only your compassion and your loving kindness are
invincible, and without limit."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget how you made them
feel."
Bonnie Jean Wasmund
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything
in its vicinity into smiles."
Washington Irving
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes
the ice melt, kindness causes misunderstandings, mistrust,
and hostility to evaporate."
Albert Schweitzer
"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an
expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts
another person."
C. Neil Strait
"Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the
strong."
Unknown
"The kindness and affection from the public have carried
me through some of the most difficult periods, and always
your love and affection have eased the journey."
Diana, Princess of Wales
"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good
things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the
joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from
this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we
think, say, want, and do."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be
a friend better than any possession."
Sophocles
"Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere
in America. And if we have learned nothing else from this
[Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on
earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate."
Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93
"Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within
us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead
nourish our positive qualities those of compassion,
understanding, and loving kindness."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We
do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act
but a habit. [Ed. note: This is true of many values,
including kindness.]"
Aristotle
"A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a
mighty ocean and a gracious nation."
Lin Hsiu Nei
"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten
your path."
Buddhist saying
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how
soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand
ordinary acts of kindness that define our days."
Stephen Jay Gould
"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a
prosperity of kindness and decency."
Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg
"Kindness has always mattered to our father. He taught us
to honor people, and he has encouraged us since before I
can remember to empathize with human suffering. When I was
a teenage he’d say, 'Ann, go do something that helps
people. Do something of service. It will always make you
feel good about your life."
Ann Curry, news anchor
"It's only me, but I can change a life."
Liz, high school student
"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special
quality of its own."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and
caring."
Hillary Rodham Clinton
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
Edward Lytton
"Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear
of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of
love, with other incident throes That nature’s fragile
vessel doth sustain In life’s uncertain voyage, I will
some kindness do them."
Shakespeare
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am
old, I admire kind people."
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity
for kindness."
Seneca, philosopher (4 BC)
"Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity
for kindness. You don't have to plan some big event. You
can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a
stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?"
Bow, high school student
"The various features and aspects of human life, such as
longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth,
which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness
and a good heart."
The Dalai Lama
"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver,
and this connection gives birth to a new sense of
belonging."
Deepak Chopra
"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger
for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is
the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
Mother Teresa
"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness."
S. Cohen
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but
each one of us can work to change a small portion of
events, and in the total of all those acts will be written
the history of this generation."
Robert Kennedy
"In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and
famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a soft
issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent
problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in
all those areas kindness toward the environment, toward
other nations, toward the needs of people who are
suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything
we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and
fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the
riddle of how human beings can live with each other in
peace, and care properly for this planet we all share."
Bo Lozoff
"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between
souls, families, and nations."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of
kindness--both the ones you have received and the ones you
have given--you can no longer believe that what you do
does not matter."
Dawna Markova
"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
Brooke Astor
"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily
money, but whatever a person has of encouragement,
sympathy and understanding. "
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Only a life lived for others is worth living.'
Albert Einstein
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll
remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become
like wildfire."
Whoopi Goldberg
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are
you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they
should be. Become one yourself!"
Marcus Aurelius
"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for
wrong ones in the past."
Tyron Edwards
"It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, we
should give him such help to the utmost of our power."
Cicero
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good
intention."
Duguet
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get
only what you are expecting to give."
Katherine Hepburn
"Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or
having a hard day, and I try to smile or say, 'Hi,' even
if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' that
reaching out to them in a friendly way could change how
they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a
blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back
just might pull someone back from the edge.' I live by
that."
Sara, high school student
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by
stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), British essayist
"To be able to practice five things everywhere under
heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity
of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Confucius (551-479 BC)
"Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never."
Sathya Sai Baba
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