Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.

Most people enjoy other people. Most people are human beings first. And affiliated with political parties second.

At City, we don't just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man!

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.

Community and families are what we're neglecting. This is what's holding us back as people, and instead, we want to look at everything else.

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

My rule is always, People first and things second.

People are more important than things.

People first. Dogs second. Things last.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.