Quotes about Helping Others

Quotes about Doing Good Deeds

Welcome to these Quotes about Helping Others by doing good deeds to help those in need.

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Helping Others Quotes

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean.
But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
- Mother Theresa

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give.
I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
- C. S. Lewis

Only the weak are cruel.
Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Leo Buscaglia

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

Lose yourself in generous service
and every day can be a most unusual day,
a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day.
- William Arthur Ward

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands,
one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness,
to pull another hand into the light.
- Norman B. Rice

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

A healthy democracy requires a decent society;
it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
- Charles W. Pickering

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The generous man enriches himself by giving;
the miser hoards himself poor.
- Dutch Proverb

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
- Arthur Ashe

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

Life is unlimited -
it expands with the generosity, compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others, but probably earlier and anonymous

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

Hard times don't create heroes.
It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
- Bob Riley

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther

The most powerful expressions of true Christianity in this material world
are an unconditional love of all humans
and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all who are sick, infirm, or troubled -
as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compassion and generosity are the true measures of human worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bible Quotes about Helping Others

Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away,
leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan
[Samaritans and Jews generally disliked and were suspicious of each other]
came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him." ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)

You have heard that it was said,
" Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

You have heard that it was said,
" Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39

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