Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a mile of joy on someone's face.

Colin Powell

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

Cory Booker

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Andrew Carnegie

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

Andrew Carnegie

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Alicia Silverstone

It's important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it's more important to me to do it every single day.

Alice Walker

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Donna Douglas

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

Donna Karan

I must say that the more you give, the more you get. Being able to find solutions, to help other people is extremely gratifying.

Dalai Lama

There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

Dalai Lama

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

Dalai Lama

If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

Dalai Lama

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Daisaku Ikeda

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

Danny Trejo

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

Daniella Alonso

People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.

Common

We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

Confucius

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

David Belle

My thing from the beginning is to have it be useful, and be able to help others. It's about being efficient and getting there as fast as you can. If people want to do it more artistically or in a freestyle way, I have absolutely no problem with it — that's the way it's going to evolve. It's not my style, but if it's other people's [style], that's perfect.

Deepak Chopra

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Andre Agassi

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Beck

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Bill Engvall

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the what about me people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

Betty Ford

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

John C. Maxwell

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

John Avery

Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.

Francois Fenelon

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Kavita Ramdas

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Narada Michael Walden

I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.