If you feed a man a meal you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food you feed him for a lifetime.
~ Peace Pilgrim
People will support that which they help to create.
~ Mary Kay Ash
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.
~ Phillips Brooks
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~ Henry Ford
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~ Maria Montessori
To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.
~ Minna Antrim
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
~ George Eliot
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
~ Ida Applebroog
There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered and of small importance.
~ Amelia Barr
I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
~ Antoinette Brown Blackwell
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
~ Alice Childress
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
~ Diana
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
~ Mary Bateson
Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.
~ Mary Field Belenky
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive nothing can be understood.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.
~ Emma Goldman
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason or do not value the things we value or are not interested in what interests us.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.
~ Evelyn Scott
It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.
~ Dorothy Uhnak
Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.
~ Sarah Winnemucca
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
~ Helen Keller
Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
~ Miriam Makeba
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
~ Teresa Of Ávila
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
~ L. E. Landon
Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
