Helping Others Quotes - Page 15

• By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.

  Charles Martin Smith

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

  Kirstie Alley

  Half, Worried, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Kirstie Alley from Aug 19, 2012

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• I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

  Lady Gaga

  Giving, Brave, Want

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

  Amy Poehler

  Opportunity, Rights, Equal Pay

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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Opportunity, People, Anarchy

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “Political and moral dimensions”, p.86, Transaction Publishers

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

  Paul Rudnick

  Children, Taken, Museums

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• it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

  Anais Nin

  Freedom, Helping, My Own

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• I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

  Olive Schreiner

  Thinking, People, Dying

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2012.

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• We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

  Lee Boyd Malvo

  Helping, Stoops

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• 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.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Law, Voice

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Writing, Covered Up

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• I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

  Eric Idle

  People, Lame, Stuff

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• I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.

  George W. Bush

  Jesus, Humor, June

  The "Jesus Day" Proclamation by George W. Bush, www.pbs.org. March 17, 2000.

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• I never fight, except against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Fighting, People, Difficulty

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• It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Order, Years

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• whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.

  Ruth Sawyer

  People, Giving, World

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• If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Suffering, Improvement

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sorrow, Bears, Failing

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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• The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stress, Numbers, Self

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• Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself.

  Sophie Jordan

  Believe, Needs, Labels

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• We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, World, Boots

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• The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Struggle, Two

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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