Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Rand Paul

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

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.

Gretchen Rubin

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

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.

Hortense Calisher

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

Jackie Chan

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

Jean de La Fontaine

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John C. Maxwell

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

Jack Welch

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.

John C. Maxwell

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

Peter Matthiessen

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

Terry Goodkind

It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man -- what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.

Terry Goodkind

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Morton Feldman

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

John Travolta

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

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Always be willing, even anxious, to help others. Nothing else you do will give you the same genuine satisfaction and joy within because, and I quote, 'when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God' (Mosiah 2:17). Ignoring the needs of others is a serious sin.

Kavita Ramdas

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Louise Hay

I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

Lucy Larcom

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

John Avery

Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.