Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

It's an important lesson Dad instilled in me, the idea that we have the freedom to serve, and that the choice to serve can define the type of life you live.

As a young man, I was a navy officer in Vietnam. I made $320 a month and would always give away $50 a month to a family I felt that was in greater need than me, in addition to my tithing to my church. I've just always felt in my heart, coming from a very humble background, that there are plenty of people who need a break in life.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.