„Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.“
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„If you rob someone who would help you if you needed help you only rob yourself. […] Do you imagine you can be cruel without teaching others to be cruel to you?“
— Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931 - 2019
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001), Volume 3, Ch. 17
„People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!“
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
„My outlook is that life is like a self-service restaurant and you have to help yourself. Sometimes when you see what the other fella has got, you want some of it too.“
— Max Bygraves Singer, comedian, actor 1922 - 2012
On being unfaithful to his wife; Daily Mail 24th May 2011
„You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.“
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
„When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.“
— Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
„You must develop one all-important ability — being able to enlist the help of other people. You have to reach a state where others want to help you. This includes giving credit…which will come back to you a hundredfold. Your reputation stems from what people say when you’re not present.“
— Cecil Howard Green American businessman 1900 - 2003
as quoted by Mike Carlowicz in WHOI Waypoints: Remembrance: Cecil Howard Green, Woods Hole Currents: Volume 10, Number 2, 2003 http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=14940
„I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.“
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
"Interview: Dr. Benjamin Carson Talks Race, Politics and Life After Medicine" http://www.christianpost.com/news/interview-dr-benjamin-carson-talks-race-politics-and-life-after-medicine-91474/, The Christian Post (March 8, 2013)
„It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.“
— Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005
„Peace can only come as people begin to meet each other. Those that do have the courage to cross the road, however, to look kindly at people and to listen to them with tenderness, will find people much like themselves, people seeking to be loved for who they are. And that it is OK for each one of us to admit, "I don't have all the truth…. I am vulnerable, I am broken. I need help." Then comes the realization, "I need your help. I need your friendship." In the end, what you will find, and what you will help the world to discover, Vanier said, is what it means to be human.“
— Jean Vanier Canadian humanitarian 1928 - 2019
From interviews and talks, Google this: Jean Vanier and what it means to be human http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/google-this-jean-vanier-a_b_7484702.html Huffington Post, 02/06/2015
„Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through“
— Karl Marx German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist 1818 - 1883
Misattributed, Attributed to Karl Marx, a composer with the same name.
„Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.“
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
„What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.“
— Jenny McCarthy, Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance
