Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Templeton

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

John Templeton

Help yourself by helping others.

Morton Feldman

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Sojourner Truth

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

Socrates

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Rand Paul

I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

Henry B. Eyring

By helping others come unto Him, you will find that you have come unto Him yourself

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

John Travolta

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Gary Chapman

Each person has the potential of making a positive impact on the world. It all depends on what you do with what you have. Success is not to be measured by the amount of money you possess or the position you attain but rather in how you use both. Position and money can be squandered or abused, but they can also be used to help others.

George Foreman

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Jon Meacham

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

Luc de Clapiers

Give help rather than advice.

Sheryl Crow

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

John Wooden

Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

Eric Idle

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

Megan McCafferty

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

Max Lucado

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

Sam Harris

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.

Susan Sarandon

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Mother Teresa

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

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.

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.

Scott Herman

For me, my core focus has always been to help others so what drives me to keep doing this is the fact that I can continue to learn to coach others such as yourself. You might not be a fitness trainer, or maybe you are, but you need to find that CORE reason that will keep you going forever.

Shunryu Suzuki

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

L. Ron Hubbard

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

Leonard Nimoy

It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

Stephanie Davis

I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.