“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
Dante Alighieri
Category: Quotes to Consider
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Quote to Consider: Seeing Needs, Meeting Needs
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Quote to Consider: More Than Logical
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.”Jacques Cousteau
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Quote to Consider: Two Lists That Need To Be Written
“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Quote to Consider: Marry Continuity and Change
“Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.”Pauline R. Kezer
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Quote to Consider: Getting to Virtue
“Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become ‘second nature’…“It doesn’t come by accident. It comes through the self-discipline required to do anything in life really well—to learn a musical instrument, to mend a tractor, to give a lecture, to run an orphanage. Or, indeed, to live as a wise human being.”
N.T. Wright
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Quote to Consider: Courage
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”Anonymous
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Quote to Consider: Happiness Unconditionally
“I accept life unconditionally. … Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.”Arthur Rubinstein
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Quote to Consider: Creating Your Own Alternatives
“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Quote to Consider: Not Enough Time!
“There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.”Lord Chesterfield
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Quote to Consider: Summing Up Commuting
“Commuter – One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.”E. B. White