Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible.
-Dalai Lama
Treat people as if they are already at their best and that's who they will become.
Stick to your core beliefs and values, but allow yourself to be adaptable to the times.
-Alvin Rohrs, CEO, Enactus
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
-Matthew 7:7,8
“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
-Albert Einstein
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
-Matthew 19:14
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
-Matthew 7:12
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
-Matthew 5:16
For I was hungry, and you gave me food: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink? When saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you? Or when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came unto you?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
-Matthew 25:35-40
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) wrote, "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
“John Wesley’s Rule” does a fair job of summing up his life:
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.
“At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life — what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home — none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school.”
Barack Obama 9/8/2009 Arlington VA
Back-to-school speech Wakefield High School
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
Laurence Olivier
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
You are truly grown up when you stop wishing and start planning.
Jon Brill
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
