Eric Sevareid Quotes

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

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

I'm one of those people who want to give back and see other people do better.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

Help people with problems, your problems disappear.

Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

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

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

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.

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'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.

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.

If you are in any position of influence, then it's almost your duty to try to help. If people don't have the ability or opportunity to help themselves, then sometimes it's got to come from someone who can.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

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

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.