Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Olive Schreiner

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

Ellen DeGeneres

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Joan Halifax

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

Ayn Rand

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Gretchen Rubin

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

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.

Jackie Chan

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

George Sand

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

James C. Collins

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

James A. Baldwin

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

Chris Hadfield

It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.

Jennifer Weiner

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

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.

George W. Bush

Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.

Frederick Buechner

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

George Edward Woodberry

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

Jean de La Fontaine

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Hortense Calisher

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Erich Fromm

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

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...

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.