Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

What's the point of blowing up if you can't give back to the people who helped you blow up?

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.

Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.