Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Jim Broadbent

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

Buzz Aldrin

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

Bubba Watson

I've learned... that sometimes coming public with certain things, it inspires other people. And sometimes I want to keep things private... but then I found out that it helps other families...

Paul Robeson

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

Patch Adams

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

Leigh Hunt

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.

Nelson Mandela

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Nhat Hanh

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.

Nhat Hanh

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

Nhat Hanh

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

Kirstie Alley

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Ken Blanchard

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

Kresley Cole

I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.

Oprah Winfrey

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Gloria Feldt

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Gloria Allred

Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.

Jim DeMint

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

Glenn Beck

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

Gillian Anderson

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Fred Rogers

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

Paul Cezanne

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

Liya Kebede

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Eugene H. Peterson

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

Henry Moore

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Henry Louis Gates

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

Frank Grillo

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.

Christine Lagarde

When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.

Erich Fromm

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.