Learn Through Quotations

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation ofhonest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;To appreciate beauty.”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“Live and let Live.”

“The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender,her respect as a person with potential.”

“Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture dignity and love.”

“One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ”

“In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.”

“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”

“There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.”

“Never strike your wife - even with a flower.”

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”

“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

“Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment.”

“Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”

“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.”

“We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“Do not take liberties with the gods, or weary them.”

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”