Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

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

I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it's really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.

Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

If you care about people, then you're willing to act not just with compassion, but you're also willing to act with courage.

I just try to do the best I can for myself and the people around me.

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

I see that I must give what I most need.

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be