A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. (Jimmy Carter)

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.

Jimmy Carter

Related topics

extend firm gentle hand helping nation person others

Related quotes

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. View quote
Anton Chekhov
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. View quote
Erich Fromm
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. View quote
Swami Vivekananda