Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.

Mark Baldassare

None of the propositions favored by the governor's administration are inspiring much passion,

Chris Evert

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Diane Lane

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education.

Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Earl Nightingale

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Deepak Chopra

The easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.

Dave Ramsey

Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it

Alan Cohen

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Abel Ferrara

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Audrey Hepburn

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.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Eduardo Saverin

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Edsger Dijkstra

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Eddie Vedder

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Elizabeth Dole

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.