Helping Others Quotes - Page 12

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

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.

We are only fully alive when we're helping others

I think I can help others just by my example.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!