Louise Linton Quotes

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

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

When we offer succor to anyone, the Savior feels it as if we reached out to succor Him.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

It helps me when I help people.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

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

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.