Helping Others Quotes - Page 5

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

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.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

Dear God, please help me to love and value myself, and treat myself with loving care. Please help me to know that I deserve happiness (as we all do), and that I have the right to change my life in healthful ways. Thank you for supporting me as I stand in my power, strength, and love in my relationships and in my career, and for helping others to accept and support the changes that I need to make.

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.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

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

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.