Dana Reeve Quotes

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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

I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.

I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

We know that we're fortunate. We have a wonderful life and it is an honour for us to be of service, and every single day dedicated to helping others and making this society and this country a better place for more people.

When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

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

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

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?

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.

Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.