Jose Antonio Abreu famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

  • Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

  • Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

  • The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

  • Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

  • ...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  • The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

  • When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

  • The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

  • I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.