Surely you’ve heard about the saying, “It’s better to give than to receive”, but the meaning of these words goes deeper than what it seems. When you give, you actually get so much more in return. Maybe not in the same form, but in a more meaningful and valuable form. You will learn compassion, encouragement, kindness, selflessness, life-changing lessons, self-respect, and gratefulness.
Lending a helping hand can uplift the person’s spirit especially during hard times. It will also set a great example for your family and friends. It emits positivity, fulfillment, happiness, and love to the people around you. When you help others, you will have a better understanding of why things happen and what we need to do to prevent them from happening again. You will find the smiles of those whom you’ve helped. Their gratefulness and prayers of blessings are worth more than a million gems. You will realize that helpings others is the most amazing feeling in the world.
Here is a long list of inspirational quotes about helping others. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
Quotes About Helping Others
1. The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far 1. superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them. – J. Cornell Michel
2. I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit. – Richelle E. Goodrich
3. To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don’t only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind’s main common language. – Suzy Kassem
4. It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish. – Derek Landy
5. We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need. – Virginia Williams
6. Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way. – Bella Thorne
7. A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. – Ellen G. White
8. The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. – Leo Buscaglia
9. My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others. – Kevin Johnson
10. Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. – John Wooden
11. Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them. – Michelle Obama
12. My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it’s because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same. – Jessie Pavelka
13. I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want. – Gina Rodriguez
14. It’s not about giving back if you’re successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it’s about your responsibility as an adult to help others. – Trisha Yearwood
15. It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others. – Carol Burnett
16. I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it – through this, we can really change the world. – JR
17. It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. – Dalai Lama
18. Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’ – Ronald Reagan
19. The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. – Brian Tracy
20. It’s like everything in football – and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It’s very simple in the end. – Johan Cruyff
21. I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering. – Karlie Kloss
22. If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist. – Beyonce Knowles
23. In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry – people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead. – Adam Grant
24. I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots – that is, the not harming others – and say we can help others and we should be helping others. – Peter Singer
25. One of the things we’ve always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it’s with the infertility issues, whether it’s with the breast cancer, we said we’re gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it’s worth it. – Bill Rancic
26. The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. – Richard P. Feynman
27. There have been struggles and challenges that I have faced that few know about but I hope will help others going through the same thing. Ginger Zee
28. We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger. – Bart Starr
29. I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work. – David Walliams
30. Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same. – David Pratt
31. It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I’m going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I’m able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through. – Bethany Hamilton
32. I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues. – J. J. Watt
33. I’ve achieved ‘the American dream.’ I feel it’s my duty to help others achieve their vision, too – especially the youth. – Joe Frazier
34. Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries. – Rita Levi-Montalcini
35. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
36. Help others reach world-class. And they’ll joyfully help you get to your best. – Robin S. Sharma
37. Full financial citizenship means more than just a savings account and a way to transfer money and pay bills. It also requires access to credit along with the ability to accept payments and run a business, send money to family or transact business across borders, contribute to the community and help others in need, and invest for the future. – Dan Schulman
38. Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I’ve always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children. – Richard MacDonald
39. With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that. – Arpad Busson
40. Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. – Joan Halifax
41. If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so. – Elizabeth Chambers
42. Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people’s lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves? – Apolo Ohno
43. Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can’t ever let that stop us. We can’t ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life. – Jon Huntsman, Sr.
44. I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. – Laurell K. Hamilton
45. I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She’s someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That’s what I do, too, so I think that’s a great comparison. – Erykah Badu
46. Once I leave this earth, I know I’ve done something that will continue to help others. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
47. Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong. – Ellen Key
48. Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. – Gerald Jampolsky
49. To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others. – Theodore Melfi
50. My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. – Matthew Perry
51. The Holy Ghost will warn us of danger, and it will inspire us to help others in need. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
52. When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too. – Bernie Siegel
53. A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company. – Henry Samueli
54. You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. – John Travolta
55. That’s the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn’t just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them. – Naomi Klein
56. My parents both came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and they were deeply grateful for the opportunities this country provided. They raised my siblings and me to want to make a difference and give back. They taught us to work hard and aim high, but to also make sure the ladder was down to help others climb up. – Thomas E. Perez
57. My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help others. I’m also trying to make history in mixed martial arts and become known as the best 135-pound fighter to ever compete. – Dominick Cruz
58. Whatever God would want me to do love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away. – Donna Douglas
59. People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion – perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances. – Kavita Ramdas
60. The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith. – Joel Osteen
61. Being physically fit helps me think better and feel better. I only have this one body. I want to make the most impact that I can; taking care of my body helps me help others. That’s a big reason why I do it. – Tim Tebow
62. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. No one has ever become poor by giving. – Anne Frank
64. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. – Barack Obama
65. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens
66. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Holmes
67. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou
68. 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. – Gordon B. Hinckley
69. You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. – John Bunyan
70. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. – Steve Maraboli
71. 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 can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. – Charles de Lint
72. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer
73. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. – John Wooden
74. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know. – W. H. Auden
75. Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. – Les Brown
76. A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible. – Simon Sinek
77. Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. – Sai Baba
78. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ – Brian Tracy
79. Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
80. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama
81. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. – Audrey Hepburn
82. You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them. – David Green
83. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. – Saint Augustine
84. Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others. – Cristiano Ronaldo
85. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. – Ricky Martin
86. There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others. – Mandy Hale
87. Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead. – Mother Teresa
88. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. – Horace Mann
89. Give, but give until it hurts. – Mother Teresa
90. Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. – Criss Jami,
91. If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent. – Warren Buffett
92. Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned. – Steve Maraboli
93. When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs. – Criss Jami
94. If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better. – Will Smith
95. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore? – Dan Pearce
