Gerry Harvey Quotes

There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Give instruction unto those who cannot procure it for themselves.

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

I love serving people. I love helping people empower themselves.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

I'd like to give people the hope and help I didn't have and that I had to learn by myself.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

… a social right