Henry Rollins Quotes

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

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

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

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

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

It is my duty to bring awareness to people in need.

Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.

If I didn't do music, I would do something to help people out.

Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.