Trevor Jackson Quotes

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the women in my life have been much better than the men.

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic, kind and understanding and I think these values can be underrated.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

I don't leave home to go help other people live if I'm not modeling that in our home setting.

I've always carried the burdens of everyone I love and try to make sure everyone else is good rather than focus on myself.

Why would anybody say no to somebody's happiness?

You have to be strong for people when you don't wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.

It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others.

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

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.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

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.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

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.