Cesar Chavez Quotes

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

I do this because it pleases me, and there is nothing I would not do so as human effort goes, to advance any movement designed to reach and rescue perishing humanity. I have a heart for others and that is why I am in this work. When I see suffering about me, I myself suffer, and so when I put forth my efforts to relieve others, I am simply working for myself. I do not consider that I have made any sacrifice whatever; no man does unless he violates his conscience

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

I'm a really strong guy. I can deal with a lot of things. But I can't deal with anybody suffering.

It's an important lesson Dad instilled in me, the idea that we have the freedom to serve, and that the choice to serve can define the type of life you live.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

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

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.