Giving

Giving

Albert Einstein:
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Anne Frank:
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Barbara Bush:
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Charles Dickens:
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Dale Evans:
Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Edward Everett Hale:
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.
Elbert Hubbard:
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld:
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
George H. W. Bush:
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.
John D. Rockefeller:
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
Maimonides:
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity’s golden ladder.
Maya Angelou:
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Pamela Glenconner:
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.
Peyton Conway March:
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Susan Sarandon:
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.from “The Matchmaker”
Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Goals
Anatole France:
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anne Frank:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Carl Sandburg:
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Schurz:
Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.
David Ogilvy:
Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
Ella Fitzgerald:
It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
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Epictetus:
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Frank Lloyd Wright:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Hannah More:
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Henry David Thoreau:
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Herb Cohen:
If you don’t know where you are going, you can never get lost.
Herodotus:
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
J. C. Penney:
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
John Dewey:
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
John Dewey:
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey:
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John F. Kennedy:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy:
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
John Gardner:
Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
John Naisbitt:
Strategic planning is worthless — unless there is first a strategic vision.
Mabel Newcomber:
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Maxine Hong Kingston:
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world — that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Michael Hanson:
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michelangelo:
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Rene Descartes:
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Richard J. Foster:
Goals are discovered, not made.Celebration of Discipline
Robert H. Schuller:
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert J. McKain:
The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
Seneca:
If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Ursula K. Le Guin:
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Vince Lombardi:
Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi:
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
W. Clement Stone:
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Yogi Berra:
You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Habit
A. E. Housman:
A tail behind, a trunk in front,
Complete the usual elephant.
The tail in front, the trunk behind,
Is what you very seldom find.
If you for specimens should hunt
With trunks behind and tails in front,
That hunt would occupy you long
The force of habit is so strong.
Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Aristotle:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle:
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Charles Kettering:
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
Mark Twain:
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.
Spanish proverb:
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
Thomas Jefferson:
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
William James:
But actions originally prompted by conscious intelligence may grow so automatic by dint of habit as to be apparently unconsciously performed. Standing, walking, buttoning and unbuttoning, piano-playing, talking, even saying one’s prayers, may be done when the mind is absorbed in other things. The performances of animal instinct seem semi-automatic, and the reflex acts of self-preservation certainly are so. Yet they resemble intelligent acts in bringing about the same ends at which the animals’ consciousness, on other occasions, deliberately aims.

Health
Albert Schweitzer:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Angela Lansbury:
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Izaak Walton:
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
Judy Collins:
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I’ve treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I’ve found that to be a tremendous help.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy:
Sendentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
Walter Cronkite:
America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.