Helping Quotes

Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.

I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.

I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

Why are you doing this?”“That’s easy. Because I like you.” He grinned. “I like you a lot.”“Why?”“Because you make me smile.”“You’re Addolgar the Cheerful. Everything makes you smile.”“Not everything. And if I want to like you, Braith of the Darkness, I get to like you. Whether you want me to or not.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

Real friends, are really hard to come by.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

Charity looks at the need not at the cause.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

We are made kind by being kind.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is to lament the loss of that which we possess and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Time is valuable in life. You can show someone how much you appreciate them by giving your time. A good amount of time goes by each day. Spending time with the ones you love shows them how much you care.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Being anonymous on help, it's feel's awesome.

Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered and of small importance.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get killed off.