Show Your Appreciation

 
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

At the beginning of a relationship
we are attracted to the other person because
we think they are sexy, smart, funny -
whatever it is that we find appealing.
But very quickly, the focus of the relationship
turns to whether we feel appreciated.
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet
as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care,
kindness and understanding you can muster,
and do with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino

Consider the contrast between the warmth of expressing sincere appreciation and the sinkhole of needing approval. Let others know how grateful you are for their kindness (when it is true), but never depend upon others to validate your own worth.

Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today

Don't allow the need for other people's approval to control your life

Caring - Kindness - Compassion - Appreciation

Appreciation Quotes

Need For Approval Quotes

Quotes about Kindness

Self Esteem Quotes

Relationship Quotes

Dale Carnegie Quotes

Tolerance

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and
tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
- Kamisese Mara

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
- George Eliot

Further reading: Diversity -- Point Of View

What is Moral versus What is Right

Perspective

Quotes about Tolerance

Quotes about Commitment

Conscience Quotes

Quotes about Beliefs

Minority Quotes

Quotes about The Majority

Real Lessons of Life

Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
- George Washington

Further reading: Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Three Rules of Life

Life Lessons Quotes

Quotes about Learning

Quotes about Humility

Quotes about Education

Quotes about Fear

Quotes about Life

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri around 1864. After emancipation, he became a scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. He gained fame for his research into soybeans, sweet potatoes, and especially peanuts.

How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Further reading:  How to Find Your Life Purpose

How to Cope With Life

Is Hope Futile?

The Golden Rule

Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

That which is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah;
the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
Compassion is the universal standard for moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Love your enemies

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule

Great Truths