Hoda Kotb Quotes

It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

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

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

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.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.