Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Alan Cohen

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

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.

Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.

Moliere

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

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.

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.

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.

Patch Adams

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

Leigh Hunt

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Ben Stein

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

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.

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Mother Teresa

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

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

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

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.