Helping Other People Quotes Page 2

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

There's one more thing I want to say.

It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs.

Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred.

People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

When you serve others, you'll grow. It really is that simple.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

You don't need a reason to help people.

I don't want to be considered a hero.

... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help.

Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money.

It was a passion for trying to help young people

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don't forget to lift someone up.

I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should.

What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Strong people don't put others down... They lift the up.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

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.

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

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people.

Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action.

These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.

When you can't solve and address and issue or opportunity, there is no harm or shame in reaching out for people who can.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others.

Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

Help people, even when you know they can't help you back.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

It is a rare and high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the differences that they can make not only in their own lives but in the lives of others by simply giving of themselves.

You don't need a reason to help people.

The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.

So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual - and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Instead of judging people by their past, stand by them and help repair their future.

While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction.

There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

A person has two hands, one for helping him, the other for helping others.

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives.

We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.