Quotes About Helping

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.

The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment.

Being kind to people and paying attention shouldn't be done with the expectation of repayment. I helped them because I could, and it made me happy.

Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?

We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpected or inappropriate catastrophe is especially piquant.

You've accepted that you can't change the country much less the world, but you can help some individuals.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

Personally, I've always been a philanthropist. I've always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways.

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.