quotes by Humanitarian Quotes

“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”

“Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”

“I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.”

“If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.”

“I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.”

“When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.”

“To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.”

“I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.”

“When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?”

“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”

“Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?”

“If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.”

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

“This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.”

“Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.”

“Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.”

“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.”

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

“Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.”

“Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.”

“These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!”

“You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.”

“There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.”

“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.”

“When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.”

“When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.”

“Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.”

“Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.”

“That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.”

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.”

“If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?”

“What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.”

“My life is my argument.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.”

“I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.”

“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom.”

“The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.”

“When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.”

“I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.”

“If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.”

“I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.”

“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”

“Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”

“Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own”

“Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."”

“I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.”