Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Bullock

The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'

Rohinton Mistry

Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

Robert Anton Wilson

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

Richard M. Nixon

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We rise by lifting others.

Rock Hudson

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

Walker Percy

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

W. H. Auden

We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.

W. H. Auden

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

W. H. Auden

Love each other or perish

Tyson Chandler

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

Thomas Kinkade

Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.

Gretchen Rubin

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

Jean de La Fontaine

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

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.

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.

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.

Eugene H. Peterson

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

Hortense Calisher

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

Erich Fromm

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

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.

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.

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.

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...