Patch Adams Quotes

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

We love that our platform allows people to give.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

Service is what life is all about.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

I love making things for people.

So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.