Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Ethel Percy Andrus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Ethel Percy Andrus.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Ethel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958. In 1993 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 1995 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.

American - Activist | September 21, 1884 - July 13, 1967

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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Ethel Percy Andrus

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

Ethel Percy Andrus

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

Ethel Percy Andrus

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Ethel Percy Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Ethel Percy Andrus

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