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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON VICE 4
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.
Albert Pike (1809-1891, American lawyer, Masonic author, historian)
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
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 (1908-1981, American peace activist)
A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato
Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.
Ann Plato
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Ann Plato
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Pope Boniface VIII
There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water.
Ivy Baker Priest
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I love meeting people and helping them.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
Never give advice in a crowd.
Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian origin)
If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
Danish Proverb (Sayings of Danish origin)
Unwilling service earns no thanks.
Danish Proverb (Sayings of Danish origin)
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
Nothing is given as easily as advice.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
To advise is easier than to help.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
To advise is not to compel.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
God likes help when helping people.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
A favor to come is better than a hundred received.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Do good and care not to whom.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
The comforter's head never aches.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
If he works for you, you work for him.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
It is a rarity to find someone who can weigh other people's faults without putting his own thumbs on the scale.
Paraguayan Proverb
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Never advise someone to go to war or to get married.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Do good and ask not for whom.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.
Marie Rambert
Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches or uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.
Swami Ramdas
Examine the personality of the mother, who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
Beata Rank
We owe it to the unfortunate to be aware of their plight and to help them in every way we can.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Myrtle Reed
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
Adrienne Rich (1929-, American poet)
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards (1933-, American politician)
There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that's selfishness.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Service to many leads to greatness -- great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
If I were asked what is the best thing one can expect in life, I would say the privilege of being useful.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
To be permanently effective, aid must always take the form of helping a man to help himself.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
When their children flourish, almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
Sara Ruddick
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857, Russian author)
Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
Marquis De Sade (1740-1814, French author)
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel (1870-1963, British statesman, philosophical writer)
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
May Sarton (1912-1995, American poet, novelist)
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
My purse, my person, my extremist means, lie all unlocked to your occasion.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother -- it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner
Together, we can be twice as effective, twice as efficient, and twice as persuasive in helping solve this nation's serious social problems through community service.
Richard F. Schubert
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.
Gertrude Schweitzer
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
David Seabury (American doctor, author)
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
David Seabury (American doctor, author)
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
Hans Selye (1907-1982, Canadian physician born in Austria, research on stress)
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885, American humorist)
hen you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark (1918-, British novelist)
First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then -- pfft!-- break the limitations.
Viola Spolin (1911-, American theatrical director, producer)
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
St. Basil (329-379, Bishop of Caesarea)
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902, American social reformer and women's suffrage leader)
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729, British dramatist, essayist, editor)
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968, American author)
Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy, the atomic energy of the spirit.
Eleanor B. Stock
Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
We came here to serve not be served.
Author Unknown
I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Rose Pastor Stokes
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Rose Pastor Stokes
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
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