Helping Others Quotes

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.

~ Steve Maraboli

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help.

~ Brené Brown

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We each have the power to give. It’s the most gratifying feeling ever. By reaching out to help another human being you're sending ripples of positive change.

~ Dana Arcuri

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

~ Aberjhani

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

~ Ben Carson

Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, that equally brings assistance to those sinking.

~ James C. Emlund

I could really use someone else's smile today.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don’t pray for help, pray for the ability to help others.

~ Debasish Mridha

The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it.

~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

~ Mike Mcintyre

Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life.

~ Edhi Sahab

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!

~ Shannon L. Alder

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

~ Liza M. Wiemer

May you find help when you need it most.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ability to extend kindness requires an other-awareness. We are apt to miss the needs of those around us if we remain self-focused. Helping children to see the needs of others will bless them with perspective on their own lives, as well as propel them toward good works that display the kindness of God.

~ Melissa B. Kruger

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We change the world a little each day with our kindness.

~ Tom Giaquinto

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

~ Criss Jami

We need to be our own guide. We can live a much more peaceful and happy life if we think about positive growth of ourselves and others, and its effects on the universe. -Hina Hashmi

~ Hina Hashmi

Generosity is the heart of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

~ Criss Jami

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.

~ Rob Liano

It is better to do little things with love than big things without love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are an inspiration to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Helping OthersWhen we live our lives in happy, compassionate and constructive ways we set an example for others, which they may or may not choose to follow. There is no need for convincing anyone to what we know as good for us. Our actions always speak louder than words, as beautiful as they may be. Be yourself riding the wave of change, and you will lighten up assisting many others to do the same if this is what they prefer.

~ Raphael Zernoff

It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

May your heart open.May joy emerge.May love flow through you.May you heal and help others.

~ Charlene Costanzo

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

~ Amy Poehler

It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.

~ Ashly Lorenzana