Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone de Beauvoir

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

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.

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.

Sting

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

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.

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.

Tom Robbins

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Seth Godin

Skepticism doesn't help you hear.

John Travolta

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

Sheryl Crow

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

Madonna Ciccone

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

Obviously, there's going to be more than one opinion. It's kind of a controversial situation. But when I look at everything, I think about helping people first. To me, no matter what someone says, it's still worth helping a young man.

Bill Maher

Right, ... I'm helping Bush. My man. My main man.

My talent lies in putting teams together and helping those teams work.

One of the privileges of helping to pay for this massive project is you can order beer.

Black Elk

I was sixteen years old and more, and I had not yet done anything the Grandfathers wanted me to do, but they had been helping me.

She's helping us learn that there are better choices.

James C. Collins

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

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.

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.

George Herbert

He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. [He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]

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.

Indira Gandhi

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Jack LaLanne

Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.

Jack Black

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

Most of the teams are there now. We're just strapped right now, helping out.