Adam Grant Quotes

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

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

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.

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.

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

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

I will take any opportunity to help others.

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

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

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

I've always had a passion to help people.

Service is what life is all about.

To be happy, make other people happy.

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.