Helping others is basic to happiness. Giving things away and helping others has an important positive effect on our happiness. Doing things for others with the purpose of getting something in return is no way to go. You should never do expect anything back in return when you help others, for this reason, it will challenge all the other benefits of helping others, reducing trust, and even having a harmful effect on your happiness if you don’t get back what you observe to be ‘equal value’. Helping others should always be its own return. These helping others quotes are inspirational, we should aim to help others as much as possible.
35 Helping Others Quotes
- “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” John Bunyan
- “We’re all in this together. Each and every one of us can make a difference by giving back.” Beyoncé
- “We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.” Virginia Williams
- “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr. Seuss
- “To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.” Henry Ford
- “To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don’t only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind’s main common language.” Suzy Kassem
- “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” John Holmes
- “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
- “The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.” Cornell Michel
- “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” Barack Obama
- “Selfless giving is the art of living.” Frederic Lenz
- “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm… As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Audrey Hepburn
- “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” Charles Dickens
- “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” Taylor Swift
- “Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others.” Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Never underestimate the difference you can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. Reach out to someone that might need a lift.” Pablo
- “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.” Leo Buscaglia
- “A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.” Simon Sinek
- “It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish.” Derek Landy
- “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time.” Will Smith
- “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Anne Frank
- “I think when you work really hard and you help others, god helps you get what you want.” Gina Rodriguez
- “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.” Jana Stanfield
- “I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.” Richelle E. Goodrich
- “He who serves the most reaps the most.” Jim Rohn
- “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” Sally Koch
- “There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.” Charles Dickens
- “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
- “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” Socrates
- “As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.” Caroline Kennedy
- “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
- “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
- “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.” Lydia M. Child
- “People appreciate and never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough.” Catherine Pulsifer
- “Take the time to help other people without expecting a reward or gratitude is definitely important in living an optimistic life.” Krista “KK” Weatherspoon
- “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” Steve Maraboli
