Eric Weiner Quotes

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

You don't need a reason to help people.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?" There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

I always pull over for people who need a push.

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.