Rande Gerber Quotes

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

I'm always helping my family. It's the most important thing.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.

The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.