Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William James

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Whoopi Goldberg

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

Whoopi Goldberg

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

Sai Baba

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

Richard P. Feynman

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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.

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.

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.

Voltaire

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Walter Isaacson

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

Joseph Jefferson

Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.

Kofi Annan

Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.

Kofi Annan

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

Kofi Annan

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

Kevin Kelly

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

Les Brown

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

LaToya Jackson

In the beginning, I didn't realize that I was so open with my feelings, and I had to stop and think to myself, I couldn't possibly be the only one in the world going through this. Perhaps this will help other people when I face my fears and allow people to come into my space. These are the things that I worked through, and in a sense, it's great that I was able to share that, although I was terrified after I realized that I was sharing it with the world.

Laura Bush

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

Laura Bush

When you reach out to others in need, when you reach out to the world, you really do have a satisfying life by helping others.

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.

Scott Herman

For me, my core focus has always been to help others so what drives me to keep doing this is the fact that I can continue to learn to coach others such as yourself. You might not be a fitness trainer, or maybe you are, but you need to find that CORE reason that will keep you going forever.

Shunryu Suzuki

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

L. Ron Hubbard

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

Leonard Nimoy

It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

Marc Ostrofsky

Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money.

Thomas a Kempis

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

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.

Sam Harris

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.