Dan Coats Quotes

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

We should be with people who are in need.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

Service is what life is all about.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

I think it's important, as a human being, to help others.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs something.

If you see a woman who is struggling with bags or looks struggling in general, help her. Don't leave her vulnerable to someone else.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

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

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be kind, be loving to the poor. We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich. We are in debt to them. Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.