Help Quotes

Lending a helping hand not only vanishes tears off the face of the person in need, but also acts as a cure for the giver. When you help someone in need, you actually get so much more in return. The smiles of those whom you’ve helped, their gratefulness and prayers of blessings are priceless.

Read through our collection of help quotes and be inspired to assist and support others whenever you can.

80 Meaningful Quotes About Helping Others

“At the end it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.” – Denzel Washington

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

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

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

“While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.” – Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

“We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll

“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

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

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

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

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” – William Arthur Ward

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.” – Horace Mann

“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.” – Pearl S. Buck

“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” – Buddha

“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

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” – Warren Buffett

“Wealth is not new. Neither is charity. But the idea of using private wealth imaginatively, constructively, and systematically to attack the fundamental problems of mankind is new.” – John Gardner

“I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help.” – Mohamed Al-Fayed

“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.” – Henry Ford

“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

“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.” – Charles Dickens

“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.” – Philip Brooks

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need. – Virginia Williams

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

“Part of being a person is about helping others.” – Regis Murayi

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

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

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Mohammad Ali

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

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

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

“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

“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

“Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.” – Sophocles

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

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

“Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.” – William Penn

“The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.” – Ivan Panin

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much.” – Erich Fromm

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.” – Bill Gates

“A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.” – Henry Fielding

“A benefactor is a representative of God.” – Benjamin Whichcote

I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want. – Gina Rodriguez

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. “ – John D. Rockefeller

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it is usually through someone else that he meets our needs.” – Spencer W. Kimball

“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” – Khalil Gibran

“Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.” – Jim Rohn

“Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.” – Samuel Johnson

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

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.” – Proverb

“When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door.” – Unknown

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

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

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.― Arabian Proverb

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.― Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

“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.

“The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.” – Edwin Louis Cole

“There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.” – Conrad Hilton

“One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.” – Maya Angelou

“Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference.” – Kathy Calvin

“Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.” – Bryant McGill

“The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.” – Laurence Leamer

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

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

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

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

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

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
― Saint Augustine