People Quotes

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.

~ B. C. Forbes

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

~ John Andrew Holmes

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

~ Hindu Proverb

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

~ Charles W. Eliot

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

~ Lydia M. Child

Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.

~ Henry Drummond

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.

~ Sidney Powell

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