Edward Everett Hale Quotes

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

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

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

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.

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

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

Use power to help people.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

My mother wasn't a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she'd tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.

Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

I have settled on just kind of what I always settle on: To keep getting better and try and affect people positively sometimes. Don't be so negative all the time.

What I try to do is to look ahead of me and not look back. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing, I'm just focused on trying to get better.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!