Quotes about Helping

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Seneca the Younger

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Anne Frank

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Thomas Sowell

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

John C. Maxwell

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

C. S. Lewis

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Simon Sinek

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

Andy Dalton

We feel like if we can give back, that's what we are called to do. So we've been fortunate to do a lot of really cool things and touch a lot of people's lives.

Patch Adams

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

Muhammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Michael Walzer

When charity perpetuates dependency and subordination, it is unjust…. You can help desperately needy people in ways that disempower them and turn them into permanent clients, or you can help them in ways that promote their independence and enable them to help themselves.

The quotation is from Walzer, but the idea was originated by the Jewish Rabbi, Physician and Philosopher Maimonides (1135-1204) who Walzer credits. This idea is really at the historical and philosophical backbone of all welfare reform efforts. Maimonodes, for example, argued that one of the greatest forms of charity is giving a person money or other assistance to start a business.

Tina Fey

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them.
I enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part.