A quote a day helps you remember what’s important.
Here are this week’s quotes on influence.
- “In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”--Urie Bronfenbrenner
- “If you want to be great, you must serve willingly and love greatly.”--Cornel West
- “I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable; to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”--Leo C. Rosten
- “If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”--Bob Hope
- “Man should not consider his material possessions his own, but common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”--Thomas Aquinas
- "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” – Dakota
- “How our smallest efforts are magnified when the motives behind them are unselfish!”--Francis Gay