Richard Simmons Quotes

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Ask yourself this question every day: "How may I best serve the most people?"

In this world we must help one another.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

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

Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. But it's really designed to focus on yourself, or it can be. So it's good to have something else to focus on that reminds you that it's not always about you.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.