Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil McGraw

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Pete Seeger

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

Peter Matthiessen

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

Mother Teresa

I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.

Mother Teresa

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Jim Rohn

Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.

Jim Rohn

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

George Matthew Adams

He climbs highest who helps another up.

Joel Osteen

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

Joel Osteen

If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.

Louise Hay

I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

Lindsey Vonn

Setbacks help you to concentrate.

Leo Tolstoy

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

Leo Buscaglia

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.

Lady Gaga

I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

Lewis Carroll

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Mother Teresa

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Mother Teresa

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

Peace Pilgrim

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

Peace Pilgrim

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

Peace Pilgrim

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

Philip Gibbs

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

Peter Jackson

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Queen Latifah

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

Haruki Murakami

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Harlan Coben

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

John Legend

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

John Lasseter

The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.

John Lancaster Spalding

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

Julie Andrews

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.