"I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways."

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Benjamin Carson

#Helping Others Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.”

Source : Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.
“I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'”
“For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.”
“The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.”

Source : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
“And there was that letter from the Bramleysâ€”that really made me feel good. You donâ€™t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of courseâ€”old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan
“The last thing I think about is losing and pressure... I just go and do it.”
“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”
“I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.”

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