Helping Other Quotes

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.
- Andre Agassi

I wonder if you know just what it means to pious?"
"Goin' to church, and readin' the Bible, and sayin' prayers and hymns, ain't it?"
"Those things are a part of it; but being kind and cheerful, doing one's duty, helping others, and loving God, is the best way to show that are pious in the true sense of the word.
- Louisa May Alcott

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
- Lance Bass

And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
- Joan Bauer

I don't know about you,
but for me...to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people.
- Toba Beta

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs
- Les Brown

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
- Ben Carson

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way not in a human way that ignores God.
- Oswald Chambers

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
- Marian Wright Edelman

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
- Bill Clinton

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
- Anthony J Dangelo

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.
- Dick Durbin

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
- Shelley Duvall

I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.
- Bulent Ecevit

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
- Penelope Fitzgerald

Helping others is like helping yourself.
- Henry Flagler

Sometimes there's other reason for helping, other than personal gain or benefit," added Sam softly. "Friendship, companionship, trust and love are not confined to light alone...they are harder won, fewer seen...but no less real.
- Eve Forward

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
- Henry Louis Gates

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.
- Terry Goodkind

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Don't concern yourself with being right in others' eyes. And don't secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don't have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.
- Joshua Harris

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Napoleon Hill

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.
- John Jay Hooker

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
- Mike Judge

Exposing the truth almost always hurts some, but helps others. But if you don't expose it, you'll still be hurting some and helping others. Just the other others.
- Jarod Kintz

Let's all roll up our sleeves and get back to work. Or let's create jobs where other people roll up other people's sleeves, so these other people can get to work helping other people get to work. That's brilliant. I should be a politician.
- Jarod Kintz

Helping others without anticipating or expecting others to help you in return, that is the path to spiritual prosperity.
- Jarod Kintz

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
- Camryn Manheim

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life.
- Mollie Marti

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
- Brandy Norwood

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
- Jenny Mccarthy

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
- Karen Mccarthy

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
- Michelle Obama

You can't go back and change your mistakes or the wrongs that have been done to you. But by surviving them and helping others in their own despair...will help all move forward to better, brighter days.
- Timothy Pina

So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
- Alexander Mccall Smith

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
- Swami Vivekananda