Helping Quotes - Page 5

A mentoring nurse to new doctors: "Check your own pulse first.

And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.

Sympathy is the charm of human life.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.

Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

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 more blessed to give than to receive.

In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.

Youth condemns maturity condones.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.

For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

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.

We not only need to be willing to give but also to be open to receiving from others.

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.

Ultimately virility is all about helping others express their reluctantly shared feelings while doing so from a safe distance.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

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

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

I love to connecting with people to help others who's exactly like you.

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.

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

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.

If we have the power and the means, then we must help.

You should have know this, Mari, that I would help you."She was smiling again as she wiped her eyes. "Maybe I should have known. But I didn't, Alain. You are a Mage, and sometimes my memories of what happened in the waste and in Ringhmon and at Dorcastle have seemed like some kind of hallucination. I didn't know how you would react when I found you. I was actually...Alain, I was afraid that when I found you I'd discover that you'd gone back to being like you were when we first met. That you'd just look at me as if I didn't exist and walk away. I should have realized that wouldn't happen. I should have known that you'd help without question. You keep saying that truth doesn't exist, buy you are true. There's nothing false about you.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.