Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Rogers

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

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.

Moliere

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

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.

Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Horace Mann

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Harry Chapin

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Indra Nooyi

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Lucy Larcom

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

Pope John Paul II

Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.

Peter Matthiessen

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

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.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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

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.

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.

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?