Top 45 Inspirational Quotes About Helping Others

When you commit to helping others, you will be allowed to experience an incredible impact and make a difference in someone else’s life. There are many ways that you can help others and build networks of people who appreciate your work.

We should try to help the ones in need. If we can’t do that, then we can at least help one person. By helping others, you also help yourself.

Here are 45 quotes about helping others that will motivate you to for doing good deeds

1. “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” ― Socrates

2. “Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.” ― Roy T. Bennett

3. “I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it’s received and reciprocated and it grows. That’s the beauty of it.” ― Hill Harper

4. “Never underestimate the difference YOU can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. This week reach to someone that might need a lift” – Pablo

5. “The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime.” ― Wes Adamson

6. “Our prime purpose in life is to help others. If you can’t help them, at least do not hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

7. “There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.” ― Andrew Carnegie

8. “In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” ― Flora Edwards

9. “When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.” ― Edward G. Bulwer

10. “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” ― Sally Koch

11. “We rise by lifting others.” ― Robert Ingersoll

12. “Helping others is a good effort to instill human dignity” – Gift Gugu Mona

13. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?”– Brian Tracy

14. “Let the echo of your footsteps spark a ray of hope in the heart of the hopeless and appear as help to the helpless.” ― Abhijit Naskar

15. “Being able to uplift others is the biggest miracle in the world.” – Sri Avinash Do

16. “Stand up for someone who is in need so that it will build confidence in you to stand up for yourself at times when required…” – Adil Adam Memon

17. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

18. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” ― Dr. Loretta Scott

19. “You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.” ― Zig Ziglar

20. “Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special.” ― George R. Bach

21. “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill

22. “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.” ― Lydia M. Child

23. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ― Dr. Seuss

24. “Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.” ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

25. “Selfless giving is the art of living.” ― Frederic Lenz

26. “Help thy brother’s boat across and lo! Thine own has reached the shore.” ― Hindu Proverb

27. “To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.” ― Henry Ford

28. “Ask not what I can get more from others, but instead what gift I have that can better help serve others more.” ― David Vosburg

29. “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” ― Shannon L. Alder

30. “When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.” ― Stephen Richards

31. “If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.” ― Buddha

32. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” ― Frank A. Clark

33. “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” ― Chinese Proverb

34. “Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” ― Sarah Bernhardt

35. “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” – John Holmes

36. “Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond.” ― Jessy and Bryan Matteo

37. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ― Mohammed Ali

38. “To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.” ― Abraham Lincoln

39. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”: – Albert Einstein

40. “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” ― Booker T. Washington

41. “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” ― Sally Koch

42. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ― John Bunyan

43. “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.” ― Mandy Hale

44. “Community service gives me a valuable opportunity to walk into a different community that is less familiar to me but just as colorful and most importantly, in need.” ― Caroline Landry

45. “He who serves the most, reaps the most.” ― Jim Rohn

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