Dorothy Day Quotes

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

It helps me when I help people.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

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

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

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.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

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.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

I don't want my life to just be about me.

I will take any opportunity to help others.

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.

I just want to help people, especially with the platform I'm on. I try and help people as much as possible.

I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!