Jane Addams Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

  Jane Addams

  Successful, Giving, Achievement

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

• Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

  Jane Addams

  Children, Attitude, Soon Enough

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.14, Courier Corporation

• The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

  Jane Addams

  Drama, Fate, Men

  Jane Addams (2016). “The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets”, p.41, Youcanprint

• As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.

  Jane Addams

  Taken, Acceptance, Giving

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.129, Youcanprint

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