Helping Quotes

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

~ Steve Maraboli

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!

~ Steve Maraboli

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

~ Steve Maraboli

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.

~ Will Advise

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.

~ J. Cornell Michel

Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I don’t know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani’sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children’s cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we’re doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?

~ Kamand Kojouri

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

How would your life be different if...You didn’t wait for someone else to fix a problem or social issue? Let today be the day...You take up a cause that you feel in your heart and give your time and efforts towards that cause.

~ Steve Maraboli

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

~ Erol Ozan

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.

~ Greg Dutilly

What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Every day I wake up and ask myself, ‘How can I accept myself and others more fully?

~ Alaric Hutchinson

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older. ~Ariel

~ Kathleen Glasgow

Time is valuable in life. You can show someone how much you appreciate them by giving your time. A good amount of time goes by each day. Spending time with the ones you love shows them how much you care.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

~ Mike Norton

I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

~ Vera Nazarian

Trust God, He will care for your every need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

~ Criss Jami

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

~ Hussein Abdallah

Want to help others? Be yourself. You’ll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I've said this before, but people love you for so many reasons. Some love you only for what you do for them. Some love you for how much money you spend. Some love you for your possessions. By now, we should know that isn't love, but merely infatuation. Don't be fooled into thinking a person like that is going to hang around once those things are gone.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential.

~ Gugu Mona

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

~ Don Polson

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

~ Caitlin Moran

I don’t argue with fools, I educate.

~ Shannon L. Alder