Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

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.

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.)

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.

Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.

Marla Gibbs

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

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.

Misha Collins

Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known.

Rick Warren

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

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.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

Thomas More

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

Thomas S. Monson

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

Sarah Jessica Parker

My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

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.