Quotes

Quotes

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
-Bhim Rao Ambedkar

I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
-Lily Tomlin

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
-Thurgood Marshall

The time is always right to do the right thing.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s a privilege to be able to bear witness to someone’s story when they may not have had the chance to tell it before.
-Lindy Alexander

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. -Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
-Pema Chodron

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
-Gail Sheehy

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that you cannot sincerely try to help another person without actually helping yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

At this very moment, there are individuals only you can reach, and differences only you can make in their lives.
-Mike Dooley

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
-Maya Angelou

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
-Angela Davis

. Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
-Unknown

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
-Eliezer Yudkowsky

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
-William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-Bernice Johnson Reagon

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Diversity makes for a rich tapestry. We must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter their color; equal in importance no matter their texture.
-Maya Angelou

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.
-Anne Frank

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
-Mary Rose McGeady

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
-Meister Eckhart

Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Helping is self-satisfaction and not expecting anything in return, a volunteer act.
-Babuschka Lorenz

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
-Frederick Douglass

I am lighthouse rather than lifeboat. I do not rescue, but instead help others to find their way to shore, guiding them by my example.
-Modern affirmation

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.
-Gordon B. Hinckley