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Inspirational Quotes About Helping Others
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“Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.”
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“We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.”
Physician, Activist, Author
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“Many small people, in many small places, do many small things, that can alter the face of the world.”
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“The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.”
Social Activist
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“Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.”
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“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ”
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”
Educator, Writer, Theologian
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“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
Novelist, Playwright, Politician
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“To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.”
Author, Mathematician, Clergyman
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Up to his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”
Poet
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“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.”
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“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”
Founder Of Ford Motor Company
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“Time and money spent in helping people to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
Founder Of Ford Motor Company
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“The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart.”
The 14th Dalai Lama (B. 1935)
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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
The 14th Dalai Lama (B. 1935)
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“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”
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“You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.”
Poet, Writer, Art Critic
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“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
Philosopher, Physician, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.”
Philosopher, Physician, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
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“The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.”
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
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“I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.”
Philosopher, Essayist
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“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
Philosopher
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“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.”
Philosopher, Essayist
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“If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.”
28th U.S. President
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“An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others. ”
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“You will rise by lifting others.”
Orator, Attorney, Politician
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“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity. ”
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“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.”
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“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Author, Lecturer, Activist
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“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
Influential Spiritual Leader Of Vedanta And Yoga.
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“There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.”
Labor Union Leader
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“As my mother says, “You give back, you don’t give up.” You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.”
Author, Photojournalist
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