If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
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The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
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Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Work is love made visible.
For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.
