Spencer Johnson Quotes

I have more fun, and enjoy more finan­cial suc­cess, when I stop try­ing to get what I want and start help­ing other peo­ple get what they want.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves

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

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

It helps me when I help people.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

You give to get. Whether it's helping someone or training a kid, I believe you will be rewarded in some way.

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

You can put yourself to the purpose of others, and in doing so, you can be better off.

I was never selfish, and I see a lot of things. If I see a person in a better position than me, I will give him my assist. This is also my way of thinking, and I expect that from my team-mate for 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.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.

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.

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.

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