Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

Love each other or perish

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.

Rick Warren

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

W. Somerset Maugham

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

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.

John C. Maxwell

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping 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.

Luc de Clapiers

Give help rather than advice.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

Olive Schreiner

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

Ellen DeGeneres

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

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.

Kirstie Alley

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Paul Robeson

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

Paul Cezanne

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

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.

Peter Matthiessen

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

Mother Teresa

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Peace Pilgrim

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

Peace Pilgrim

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

Philip Gibbs

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

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.