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Inspiration September 29, 2017
"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
Clara Barton wasn’t afraid to face the battlefield. But, instead of fighting, she was saving lives on the field.
During the Civil War, she supported troops on the battlefield by nursing, cooking and comforting the wounded. She earned the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield.”
After the war, she traveled to Europe where she found out about the Geneva, Switzerland Red Cross, which protected the sick and wounded during the wartime. When Barton came back to America, she was determined to convince the United States to join the Red Cross network. So, she worked with friends such as Frederick Douglass to implement the American Red Cross in 1881.
Barton was president of the organization until resigning in 1904.
But, she never retired from helping others. Up until her death at the age of 91, she participated in relief work.
Barton was a symbol of selflessness and philanthropy.
So, we’re giving you a list of famous Clara Barton quotes to prove the power of charity.
“This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.”
“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.”
“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.”
“You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.”
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
“People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.”
Clara Barton’s work reminds us that charity and self-sacrifice is the best way to create a better world.
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