Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!

Roger Nash Baldwin

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

Tom Wujec

We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

Susan Sarandon

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Max Lucado

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

John Travolta

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Morton Feldman

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Sheryl Crow

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

Michael Franti

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

Melody Beattie

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Michel Foucault

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

Marla Gibbs

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

James C. Collins

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

James A. Baldwin

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

Eugene H. Peterson

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

George W. Bush

Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.

Frederick Buechner

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

George Edward Woodberry

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

Henry Moore

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Henry Louis Gates

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

Frank Grillo

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.

Christine Lagarde

When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.

Jennifer Weiner

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.