Dave Obey Quotes

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

I'm more of somebody who'll bend over backwards for people and, you know, wait at the back of the line until everybody's taken care of. That's really my nature.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!