William Arthur Ward Quotes

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

Service is the key to everything in life.

I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

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.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

With #ChooseKind, you can just do whatever you can to make someone else's day better by including people in something you're doing and by just smiling at people.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

I think it's just constantly on my mind: wanting to help people, not just with music but with my words. I feel like I want to do that for people.

Man, it feels great to do anything that might brighten someone else's day.