People Quotes - Page 2

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Jean de La Bruyère

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.

Bible

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Madame de Stael

When you learn to live for others they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker Palmer

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

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

Avarice hoards itself poor charity gives itself rich.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

Emily Dickinson

The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere and within your reach.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is to lament the loss of that which we possess and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

Thomas Fitzosborne

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

A. Neilen

Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.

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.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Charles W. Eliot

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

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.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Sir Philip Sidney

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

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

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks you are a pretty rich man.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

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.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

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

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

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

William Ellery Channing

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

What we frankly give forever is our own.

George Granville

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

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

Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Zora Neale Hurston

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Robert J. McCracken

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Rose Pastor Stokes

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.

True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

William J. H. Boetcker

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Marianne Williamson

When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

George Matthew Adams

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Gerald B. Fitzgerald

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

Grenville Kleiser

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

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