Pillar for September/October

FAIRNESS

Quotes for September/October

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and
love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time
they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."

~ Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi ~
(1869-1948)

A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver
five minutes longer.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
(1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing.

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

~ Washington Irving ~

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

~ Ann Landers.

Happiness is not the end of life; character is."

~ Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

~ Helen Keller, Helen Keller's Journal (1938)

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

~ Thomas Paine

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage and determination.

~ John Luther

Fairness
Do: Be open minded and impartial - hear people out, listen to them and consider what they have to say before you decide * Be careful - get the facts, including opposing viewpoints, before making decisions (especially blaming or accusing another)

~ (from the Allegany Marketing Company School Agenda)

I am in politics because of the struggle between good and evil. I believe that in the end good will triumph.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Energy rightly applied can accomplish anything.

~ Nellie Bly

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change
virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant.
I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into
reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide
to wake up and claim our birthright.

~ Anthony Robbins ~
(1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert)

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find
them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~
(1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must
be defended against the heaviest odds.

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
(1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader)

Hear both sides before judging.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

~ Thomas J. Watson ~
(18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM)

When you blame others you give up your power to change.

~ Author Unknown ~

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

~ Peter Marshall ~
(1902-1949, American Presbyterian Clergyman)

It is understanding that gives us the ability to have peace. When we
understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours,
then we can sit down and work out our differences.

~ Harry S. Truman ~

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me.' Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

~ Buddha ~

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained
through understanding.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Pursue truth and people will be true to you

~ Arthur Twining Hadley

The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

~ Peter Abelard
(1079-1142, French Philosopher, Priest)

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

~Janis Joplin
(American Folk Singer)

Be fair. Treat the other man as you would be treated.

~ Everett W. Lord

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

~ A. J. Carlson

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

~ Samuel Johnson

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

~ Cicero

Don't say "no" until you've heard the whole story.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book

Since nothing is settled until it is settled right, no matter how unlimited power a man may have, unless he exercises it fairly and justly, his actions will return to plague him.

~ Frank A. Vanderlip

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Never take what you cannot use.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

~ Cicero

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

~ Ben Kingsley as Mohandas K. Gandhi, in Ghandi, 1982

Those who have not known the joy of standing up for a great cause of justice have not known what makes living worthwhile.

~ Paul Painleve, regarding the Dreyfus Affair

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Persons are to be loved, things are to be used.

~ Reuel Howe

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

~ Dennis Wholey, 20th/21st-century self-help author and journalist

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice."

Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th-century U.S. President (letter to George Hammond, 1792)

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due."
- Justinian I

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

~ Kenneth Tynan, 20th-century English art historian and critic

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

~ Cicero (Marcus Tullius), Roman orator, philosopher and statesman

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 19th-century American poet

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

~ Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist

Pay your fair share.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.

~ Buddy Hackett

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

~Bible, James 1:19

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

~Bible, Proverbs 15:1

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

~Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925).

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others without being crippled by your own judgment."

~Ralph Marston.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearance.

~Jean de la Fontaine

If you judge people you have not time to love them.

~Mother Theresa.

Truth resides in the human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."

~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

~Dandy Lion

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."

~Robert Green Ingersoll

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest (1886), 4.10

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

~Cicero

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

~Jean Jacques Rousseau

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Justice is truth in action.

~ Speech, Hansard 11 February 1851

The more opinions you have, the less you see."

~Wim Wenders

One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us."

~Virgil A. Kraft

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

~Bill Cosby

The highest result of education is tolerance."

~Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

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