Frances Hesselbein Quotes

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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 it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.

It's easy to love people who love you.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

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

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.