Helping Quotes

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

~ George E. Woodberry

Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

~ Robert Brault

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy the atomic energy of the spirit.

~ Eleanor B. Stock

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

~ Charles F. Dole

Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

~ Virgil

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

~ Danny Thomas

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

~ Charles Kingsley

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

~ Dante Alighieri

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

~ Dr. Frank Crane

He gives twice who gives promptly.

~ Publilius Syrus

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

~ Mary Pettibone Poole

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.

~ Joan Baez

Youth condemns maturity condones.

~ Josephine Preston Peabody

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

~ Comtesse Diane

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

~ Vicki Baum

People who won't help others in trouble because they got into trouble through their own fault would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

~ Sydney J. Harris

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

~ Mother Teresa

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

~ Christina Baldwin

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

~ Dr. Alexis Carrel

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

~ Margaret Deland

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

~ Mary Field Belenky

Reform is born of need not pity.

~ Rebecca Harding Davis

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

~ Mary Parker Follett

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

~ Rose N. Franzblau

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

~ Lou Ann Walker

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

~ Dorothy Gilman

When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.

~ Carrie Jacobs Bond

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.

~ Diana

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

~ Isadora Duncan

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

~ Anna Julia Cooper

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

We have to improve life not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

~ Dorothy Height

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

~ Adrienne Rich

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

~ Viola Spolin

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

~ Jessamyn West