Helping Others Quotes - Page 29

• Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Recovery, Autism

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

  Jon Meacham

  Example, Relief, Favors

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• We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Matter, Dignity

  Democratic National Convention speech, 2012.

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• Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

  Apolo Ohno

  Dream, Winter, Impact

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• The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Integrity, Selfish

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• 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.

  Susan Sarandon

  Simple, Differences, Volunteer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

  Maria Sharapova

  Believe, Years, Careers

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• As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

  John Travolta

  Dream, Teaching, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

  David Walliams

  Kids, Want, Good Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Use, Matter

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• A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

  Confucius

  Men, Humanity, Seeking

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• Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Earth, Process

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• And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.

  Joan Bauer

  People, Leader, Healthy

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.116, Penguin

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• Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Selfish, Teaching

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• Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

  Melody Beattie

  People, Worry, Energy

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.56, Hazelden Publishing

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• Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . . Jamie also thought me the value of forgiveness and the transforming power it offers . . . Jamie was not only the angel who saved Tom Thornton, she was the angel who saved us all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kindness, Angel, Men

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• I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

  Les Brown

  Helping

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• The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Giving, Tapas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1062, Manonmani Publishers

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• (While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Tired, Night, Thinking

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• We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

  Eric Weiner

  People, Feel Good, Payback

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House

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• His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Determination, Loneliness, Dark

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.211, Head of Zeus

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• I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Writing, Self

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• Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. It’s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is for you to see me for what I really am. No one wants to believe that some people are willing to help others out of the goodness of their hearts because they can’t stand to see someone suffer. So few people are altruistic that they can’t understand or conceive that anyone else in the world could ever put someone else’s good above their own. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

  Anne Rice

  Inspirational, Children, Angel

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• Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Real, Giving, Live Your Life

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