The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing. "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
First they came for the Jews According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Martin Niemoller was a Protestant pastor and head of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church. Arrested for 'malicious attacks against the state', he spent seven years in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen Released in 1945 by the Allies." I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest... Martin Luther King To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom. (Indian saying) The measure of a person's knowledge is the actions they take. (Saint Francis of Assisi) "Spirit, are they yours?" Scrooge could say no more. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ….Theodore Roosevelt Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters…. Albert Einstein A competent leader can get efficient service from poor
troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of
troops. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it…. Andrew Carnegie To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. - Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- He that won't be counseled can't be helped. - Benjamin Franklin A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Grace Pulpit By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. - Albert Einstein The only person who never makes a mistake is the person who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Saint Thomas Aquinas Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – Gen. George S. Patton Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. – Ronald Reagan Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. WellsWhat is man without the beasts? I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Unknown 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. - Mother TheresaIt is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo EmersonTo the world you may be one person, But to one person you may be the world. - Unknown
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never
repay you. - Unknown Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity - Horace Mann He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. - Goethe It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. - Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopherFar better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumps, A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. –Unknown Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his
eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all
the sights and sounds of her existence. - Alfred Billings Street Past the beggar and the suffering walk he who asks, 'Why, oh God, do you not do something for these people?' To which God replied, 'I did do something, I made you.' --Old Sufi Saying Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. - Author Unknown
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pike, 19th-century Scottish Rite Freemason The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mohandas Gandhi, 20th-century Indian nonviolent civil rights leader Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that
you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest
service, love, sacrifice and courage. - St. Francis of Assisi No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s
help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For,
remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. -
Albert Schweitzer Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1952 It is in giving oneself that one receives. - Francis of Assisi Where apathy is the master, all men are slaves. - Unknown Never tire of doing what is right. - II Thessalonians 3:13 Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arnold Schopenhauer, early 19th-century German philosopher Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children. - Native American saying Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. - Charles ReadeUntil he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer, early 20th-century German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor and theologian I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody. - Unknown May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion. - Thomas Jefferson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. - Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988 The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. - L. P. Hartley Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana If only society and environment could work together - we would have a masterpiece. - Author Unknown
"If I were to name the three most precious resources of
life, I should say books, friends and nature; and the greatest of them, at
least the most constant and always at hand, is nature." - John Burroughs
Compassion for animals is
intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently
asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. -
Arthur Schopenhauer
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