Helping Quotes

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

~ Sir Philip Sidney

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

~ Luther Burbank

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

~ Norman Macewan

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks you are a pretty rich man.

~ Seth Parker

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

~ Albert Einstein

Unless we give part of ourselves away unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.

~ Harold Taylor

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is to lament the loss of that which we possess and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

~ Thomas Fitzosborne

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

~ A. Neilen

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

~ Victor Hugo

Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer your muscles stronger and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.

~ Prentice Mulford

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

~ Anonymous

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

~ William Ellery Channing

When you learn to live for others they will live for you.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.

~ Karl Reiland

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.

~ Bible

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

~ Gretta Brooker Palmer

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

~ Earl Allen

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.

~ Madame De Stael

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

~ Maurice Hulst

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.

~ Gerald Vann

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

~ Sir James M. Barrie

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

~ Suzanne Massie

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

~ Mark Twain

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

~ Henry Drummond

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

~ Dale Carnegie

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

~ Arthur Christopher Benson

Avarice hoards itself poor charity gives itself rich.

~ German Proverb

The hearts that never lean must fall.

~ Emily Dickinson

The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere and within your reach.

~ Marcia Wieder

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

~ Hindu Proverb

We not only need to be willing to give but also to be open to receiving from others.

~ On Hope

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

~ Arthur Christopher Benson

The smartest thing I ever said was Help Me!

~ Anonymous

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

~ Rona Barrett

The healthy the strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

~ Rona Barrett

My only advice is to stay aware listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.

~ Judy Blume