Quotes on Helping People

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.

I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

You only need a heart full of grace

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends on people first hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and coming into the faith. ... With all that there is to do along the path to eternal life, we need a lot more missionaries opening that gate and helping people through it.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.