Helping Quotes

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.

Elizabeth de Meulan Guizot

It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.

Richard C. Chewning

If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?

Talmud

Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.

If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

Johann von Goethe

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Sir Walter Scott

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

And they said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear.

Bible

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

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.

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.

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

Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.

Frances Ridley Havergal

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

Dr Loretta Scott

Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

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

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

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Jean de La Bruyère

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Bible

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

Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Madame de Stael

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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