Helping Others Quotes - Page 16

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

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought.

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

The things that motivate us are to help other people, to feel that we're useful, to feel that we're getting better, to feel that we are kind of living to our potential, to get a sense of meaning. All of those things are positive.

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

We are all here on earth to help others.

The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?