Helping Quotes - Page 2

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Time is valuable in life. You can show someone how much you appreciate them by giving your time. A good amount of time goes by each day. Spending time with the ones you love shows them how much you care.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

We can have anything we want on life, if we just help others to found what they need

Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth.

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.

Our hands will never be too small for helping those who are in need as long we have the heart to care.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

The only way to help someone is when you know they cannot return you back.Anything else is just business.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

True happiness can only be found when you stop worrying about yourself and try to look out for those around you.Helping people can give your life meaning and joy. Don't expect anything in return spread happiness and get peace, there is nothing more valuable than peace..

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.

Charity looks at the need not at the cause.

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!

Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

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.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

You know we're all going in the same direction or at least trying to. So we need to live together get along together and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.

Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

[Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so you share your lives with people.

It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.

People who help others on a regular basis are ten times more likely to be healthy than people who do not.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.

There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours.

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.

It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing—helping someone fit in.