Helping Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

What we frankly give forever is our own.

George Granville

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.

Lord Chesterfield

Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Zora Neale Hurston

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Robert J. McCracken

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Rose Pastor Stokes

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.

True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

William J. H. Boetcker

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Marianne Williamson

When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

George Matthew Adams

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Gerald B. Fitzgerald

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

Grenville Kleiser

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson

Cruelty is the only sin.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.

Bonaro Overstreet

In real love you want the other person's good.

Margaret Anderson

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.

Pamela Glenconner

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Rose Pastor Stokes

He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.

Michel de Montaigne

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Ethel Percy Andrus

In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Claudian

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Jacqueline Schiff

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Theodore C. Speers

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