Helping Others famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-- A. C. Benson -
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
-- Abel Ferrara -
The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.
-- Abigail Scott Duniway -
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
-- Adam Grant -
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.
-- Adora Svitak -
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
-- Aeschylus -
When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
-- Albert Einstein -
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-- Albert Einstein -
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
-- Alexander Pope -
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
-- Alice Walker -
I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.
-- Alicia Keys -
It's important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it's more important to me to do it every single day.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high. You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions. We are here to encompass the world with love and light.
-- Amit Ray -
If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
-- Anais Nin -
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
-- Andre Agassi -
This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
-- Andre Agassi -
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
-- Andre Gide -
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Dreams fulfilled, help others launch new dreams.
-- Ann Romney -
It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.
-- Anne Lamott -
This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.
-- Anne Lamott -
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
-- Apolo Ohno -
People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.
-- Arianna Huffington -
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
-- Aristotle -
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.
-- Arpad Busson -
I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator
-- Assata Shakur -
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.
-- Ayn Rand -
In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.
-- Barbara Stocking -
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.
-- Barbara Walters -
Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
-- Bella Thorne -
I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.
-- Bella Thorne -
As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.
-- Ben Cohen -
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
-- Ben Stein -
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
-- Ben Stein -
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
-- Benjamin Carson -
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
-- Benjamin Carson -
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
-- Benjamin Carson -
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
-- Benjamin Carson -
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
-- Benjamin Franklin -
You can only have fun helping other people have fun if you're having fun doing it.
-- Bernie De Koven -
That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.
-- Betty Ford -
One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
-- Bill Rancic -
America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
-- Bobby Knight -
Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.
-- Bobby Lee -
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
-- Booker T. Washington -
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
-- Booker T. Washington -
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
-- Brandy Norwood -
Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.
-- Brenda Ueland -
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
-- Brian Tracy -
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
-- Brian Tracy -
I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.
-- Brigid Schulte -
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.
-- Brooke Burns -
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...
-- Bubba Watson -
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Don't be constantly selling and shilling. Figure out how you can help others, tell them stories, and share openly everything you know so that people will recognize you as someone that they can trust, who won't turn them off by constantly trying to sell them something.
-- C.C. Chapman -
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
-- Carlos Slim -
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
-- Carol Burnett -
The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.
-- Caroline Myss -
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.
-- Carrie Jacobs-Bond -
I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.
-- Catherine Ponder -
May your heart open. May joy emerge. May love flow through you. May you heal and help others.
-- Charlene Costanzo -
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
-- Charles William Eliot -
When you make a choice to be of service to others, you gain the courage and sense of determination that will fuel your efforts. With a solid vision in place, you also become less concerned with your individual fear or self-doubt and more committed to taking the actions that will support your larger vision.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.
-- Choi Hong Hi -
If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work.
-- Chris Guillebeau -
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.
-- Chris Hadfield -
It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
-- Chris Hadfield -
You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.
-- Chris Murray -
One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
-- Chuck Norris -
... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.
-- Cornelius Plantinga -
Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
-- Cory Booker -
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
-- Cory Booker -
Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.
-- Craig Kielburger -
The greatest good we can do in helping others become what they can become will be to lead them to the Savior.
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.
-- Dalai Lama -
Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.
-- Dalai Lama -
Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.
-- Dalai Lama
