Karen Bender Quotes

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

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

Inherently I think the goodness in most people, we get a warm sense of satisfaction if we help someone, it makes you feel better.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

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.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

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

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

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

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.