Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao TzuIn a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
John F. KennedyIf you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
Lady GagaThe kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.
Lady GagaYou cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEven if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.
Greta ThunbergThe poorest people are the sweetest people.
Denzel WashingtonClever tyrants are never punished.
VoltaireOne thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James BaldwinWords are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul SartreGetting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel JohnsonIt’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
Joel OsteenThe most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-PowellMy mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.
Angelina JolieA saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.
Russell M. NelsonWhat we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNot always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander PopeEverybody likes a compliment.
Abraham LincolnReputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
Robert GreeneWe continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. RooseveltMany Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
Thich Nhat HanhAffluence means influence.
Jack LondonNothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiIf I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David ThoreauI always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
BonoThe thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Maya AngelouMy problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.
Jurgen KloppBlessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Jesus ChristThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyGive to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Jesus ChristThere never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert FrostMy father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.
Cristiano RonaldoGiving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin PowellThe poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul SartreThere are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel JohnsonI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinGiving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim RohnThe work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas CarlylePalestinians have no wealth or power.
Noam Chomsky‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William ShakespeareFew enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel JohnsonThat’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack ObamaI realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.
Nipsey HussleIn the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao TzuOur focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.
Kanye WestAs you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey HepburnEarn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert EinsteinAll respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Ruth Bader GinsburgAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James MadisonIf thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
EpictetusWhether 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 LamaPower over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Eckhart TolleAn unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
John RuskinThe exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
Charles SpurgeonIf you give, you will be blessed.
Joel OsteenWe’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.
Kanye WestIt is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman