John Templeton Quotes

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

I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

Help people with problems, your problems disappear.

There's just so much I want to do in life. Part of that is to use my story and use my experiences to give back to other people.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

People who give will never be poor.

We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else’s life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.

It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.