Helping Others Quotes

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind. (165)

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.