Norman Maclean Quotes

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

People are nicer than economists give us credit for. The economists cannot understand why people would work long and hard to clean up a community after a hurricane. … Most economists don’t have any interest in or understanding of psychology.

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

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

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Even if you don't have a lot, you can help someone.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.

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.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

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.

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

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.