Quote by Marcia Vaughan

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only d

Summary

This quote highlights the selflessness and humility of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who saved thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Despite her courageous actions and the significant impact she made, Sendler did not identify as a hero. She believed that what she did was merely a moral obligation, reflecting her strong sense of duty and compassion. The quote also reveals her ongoing desire to do more, emphasizing her unwavering commitment to helping others and her remorse for not being able to save even more lives.

Topics

Love Kindness Help Irena Sendler

By Marcia Vaughan

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possessio

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Freedom

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your co

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Faith

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very b

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.

Dreams Inspirational Quotes Belief Inspirational Inspirational Life Life And Living Dreaming Inspiring Dreams Inspirational

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for an

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann von Goethe

Wisdom

There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons.

There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were therefore accordingly adorned with dragons. This deep affection for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside the man's window. It is said that he probably died of fright.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, from Hagakur

Reality

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the son

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Mahalia Jackson

Hope

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spiritua

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Carl Gustav Jung

Spirituality

We are all alike, on the inside.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Equality

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Frederick W. Faber

Right

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Sympathy

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Company Companions

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

Legal