Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney J. Harris

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

Susan Sontag

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Ray Kroc

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Randy Alcorn

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

Taisen Deshimaru

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Swami Vivekananda

Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

Swami Vivekananda

The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

Rosalynn Carter

There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.

Rosalynn Carter

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Tom Robbins

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Tom Krause

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

Steve Forbes

It can't help but knock things down.

Steve Allen

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Stephanie Davis

I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.

Viktor E. Frankl

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

Val Kilmer

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

Vaclav Havel

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

Sophocles

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

Sophocles

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Stephanie Mills

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

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.

Thomas Bulfinch

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Veronica Roth

I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. "Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.

Veronica Roth

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

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 Huxley

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

Thomas S. Monson

If we will put our trust in the Lord, he will help us through our difficulties, whatever they my be.

Thomas S. Monson

Each of us can do something to help someone.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.