Irena Sendler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.
-- Irena Sendler

#Humility #Tolerance #World
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
-- Irena Sendler

#Inspirational Life #Hero #Normal
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term â€˜heroâ€™ irritates me greatly â€“ the opposite is true â€“ I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
-- Irena Sendler

#Believe #Hero #Opposites
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
-- Irena Sendler

#Children #Secret #Titles
I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
-- Irena Sendler

#Water #Swim #Taught
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.
-- Irena Sendler

#Religious #War #Humility
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
-- Irena Sendler

#Religious #War #Blood
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
-- Irena Sendler

#Holocaust #Half #World
If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.
-- Irena Sendler

#Thinking #Bravery #Saint

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Irena Sendler famous quotes

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