Jessica Parker Kennedy Quotes

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

The idea of service leads to community.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

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.

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Don't we all want what's best for each other?

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

One of the great characteristics of America is that we do try and help each other.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

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