The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said—namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right.
It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - from Life Magazine, 1/9/50
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - from Living Philosophies, 1931
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Recalled on his death 18 Apr 55
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed.
Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
If a man could have half his wishes he could double his troubles.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Information is the currency of democracy.
The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Pennies do not come from heaven--they have to be earned here on earth.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
If you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
Mary Kay Ash
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
People fall forward to success.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
We fall forward to succeed.
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.
Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Enthusiasm is NOT the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Peeves do not make very good pets.
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Show interest in ALL people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Think before you act and act on what you believe.
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
Value people on their potential, not on their history.
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
· AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine.
· As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
· As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
· At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
· Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
· Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
· DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
· I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
· I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
· I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.
· I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.
· I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
· I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
· I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
· I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
· I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
· If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
· If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
· If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
· If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
· In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
· In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
· Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
· Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
· Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
· It's been shown that most people download viruses unwittingly - they don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.
· It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
· Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
· Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
· Life is not fair; get used to it.
· Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
· Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
· Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
· People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
· People everywhere love Windows.
· Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
· Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
· So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
· Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
· Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
· Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
· The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
· The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.
· The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
· The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.
· The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.
· There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
· There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.
· There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.
· This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
· Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
· We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
· We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
· We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
· When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
· When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
· Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
· Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
· You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
· Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Peace begins with a smile.
So many signatures for such a small heart.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren't aware how much it carried me through.
I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
I know it's just a job they have to do, but sometimes I do wish they wouldn't.
I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people's hands, people used to be shocked because they'd never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
