Altruism Quotes

...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The good shall prevail in the end, the truth shall be the rule and the Cameroonian soul shall be free,” Hans said in an emotion-choked voice, “However, we should never lose our heads; we should always be prepared to forgive all the repentant souls.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

…what else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves―our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the show, but they know little or nothing about the people behind the stage―the manipulators.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...We find our greatest peace when we embrace something that gives meaning to our lives. Often, it is love for somebody or something we can give up our lives for, or somebody or something that we are sure will never betray us. That love could be for a partner, for our offspring, for a country or for a belief...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself, he never betrayed his mission and he never corrupted the ideas that God wants us to live by. The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humaneness. There is no reason to try to kill it because it will triumph ultimately.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

~ Janvier Chando

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own, and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

~ Aberjhani

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.

~ Rebecca Solnit

We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

~ Aberjhani

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong. determines what is right! right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible, violent things. That's at the bottom of it. It's just a question of prioritizing. The funds are t

~ Susan Sarandon

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

~ Erol Ozan