Quotes by Authors - Page 155

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
Anonymous
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
Austin O'Malley
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck Brooks
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
Hugh Prather
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.
Erica Jong
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.
Helen Keller
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.
Elizabeth de Meulan Guizot
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marian Wright Edelman
Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
Ruth Gordon
It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.
Kristin Hunter
My only advice is to stay aware listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
Judy Blume
The healthy the strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
The smartest thing I ever said was "Help Me!"
Anonymous
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.
Arthur Christopher Benson
We not only need to be willing to give but also to be open to receiving from others.
On Hope
The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere and within your reach.
Marcia Wieder
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
Dale Carnegie
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.
Gerald Vann
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael
In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
Suzanne Massie
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
Anonymous
Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer your muscles stronger and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.
Prentice Mulford
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo
Unless we give part of ourselves away unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.
Harold Taylor
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.
Sidney Powell
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.
B.C. Forbes
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Boniface VIII
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
George Matthew Adams
When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
Sara Ruddick
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
William J. H. Boetcker
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson
Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
Robert J. McCracken
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
Lord Chesterfield
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Holly Ketchel
In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Flora Edwards
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.
Peace Pilgrim
Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Carter Heyward
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
Michel de Montaigne
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Rose Pastor Stokes
One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
In real love you want the other person's good.
Margaret Anderson