Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Charles William Eliot

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

Audrey Hepburn

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Bobby Lee

Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.

Benjamin Franklin

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

Ben Cohen

As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.

Baltasar Gracian

Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

David Miliband

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

David Hume

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Deb Caletti

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Charles de Lint

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

John Gerzema

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

Derrick Bell

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Trai Byers

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Brene Brown

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

Brene Brown

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Bob Hawke

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Bob Dylan

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Brian Aldiss

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Asghar Farhadi

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

Neil Kurshan

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

Aldous Huxley

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Lincoln Steffens

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.