Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker urges seeking improvement and help to avoid becoming irrelevant or forgotten.
In plain terms
We need to improve and help each other to matter.
What can you take from it?
Mutual help prevents becoming insignificant.

Where it applies

  • feeling forgotten
  • community building
  • seeking growth

Putting it to work

  • volunteer
  • ask for help
  • reach out to others

Questions to consider

  • How do you define worth?
  • Who helps you rise?

Another view

It equates value with usefulness to others.

More from Tom Petty

  1. I remember feeling this way, you can lose it without knowing. You wake up one day and you don't notice which way the wind is blowing.

    Permalink to quote #64
  2. I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day, most things I worry about never happen anyway.

    Permalink to quote #66
  3. Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go from time to time.

    Permalink to quote #63

Related quotes

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

    James BrownJames Brown quote #26
  2. A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes s…

    Sarah Orne JewettSarah Orne Jewett quote #1
  3. We like rather to dream of a body of young men as a live thing, as a tree where all the branches are nourished by a single sap, and where each part is meaningl…

    Learned HandLearned Hand quote #2