Doug Baldwin Quotes

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a place of selfishness, but I'm also cognizant of potential impact on others. And I try to make that impact positive.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

They have a right to criticize who have the heart to help.

It is unacceptable to be silent about American generosity.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

The end of all education should surely be service to others

People are nicer than economists give us credit for. The economists cannot understand why people would work long and hard to clean up a community after a hurricane. … Most economists don’t have any interest in or understanding of psychology.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

I think it's important, as a human being, to help others.

I believe we all have a responsibility to try to help other people in this world. To me, my ability to help and to do good for others will only increase if I'm more known and get to that really super elite level. That would be the huge benefit for me. It would put me in a position where I could just help more people.

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

With our brains and our smarts and our altruistic capability, we can do a lot of good.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

I don't think it really serves to make the world a better place, when you're only concerned about yourself.

I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. Morals. Ethics. People in Chicago do the right thing. If somebody falls on the street, someone will actually stop and help them up. That doesn't happen in certain other cities.

I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.