Jason Isbell Quotes

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

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

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.