50+ Inspiring Quotes About Helping Others to Uplift Your Spirit

"As we lose ourselves in the service of others we discover our own lives and our own happiness."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love."

- Mother Teresa

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."

- Mother Teresa

"“The secret of success is moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”"

- Henry Ford

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

- Muhammad Ali

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered people have torn down, other-centered people can build up."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."

- Dalai Lama

"The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them... and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm."

- Wayne Messam

"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 best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"The end of all knowledge should be service to others."

- Cesar Chavez

"Without service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop."

- Dorothy Height

"A life of significance is about serving those who need your gifts, your leadership, your purpose."

- Kevin Hall

"If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter."

- Ezra Taft Benson

"Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service."

- Earl Nightingale

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"He profits most who serves best."

- Arthur F. Sheldon

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."

- Lee Iacocca

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."

- Jim Rohn

"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."

- Leo Tolstoy

"All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for."

- Napoleon Hill

"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Service brings satisfaction."

- James Cash Penney

"Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit – things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: Civility, respect, kindness, character."

- Aaron Sorkin

"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service."

- Robert Collier

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can."

- Sydney Smith

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."

- Edward Everett Hale

"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no person is useless while he has a friend."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"When you change the way you see the world, the world you see will change"

- chrrmin

"The more we give away, the more is given to us."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

- Howard Zinn

"Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals."

- Kallam Anji Reddy

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

- Og Mandino

"Service doesn’t have to be big and grandiose to be meaningful and make a difference."

- Cheryl Esplin

"Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"There is incredible value in being of service to others."

- Elizabeth Berg

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"You have two hands: One to help yourself, the second to help others."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Help the life of one person and you can help the community."

- Steven Sawalich

"Some of our finest work comes through service to others."

- Gordon B. Hinchley

"To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money."

- Douglas Adams

"Love in action is service to the world."

- Lynne Namka

"Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves."

- Nina Hagen

"A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy."

- Kerry Kennedy

"I believe that God has blessed me in immeasurable ways so that I can, in return, bless and help others."

- Karen Civil

"Be kind and help others. Let the ones you love know you love them."

- Kyle Carpenter

"Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength."

- Marjorie Liu

"You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them."

- David Green

"We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger."

- Bart Starr

"Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others."

- Craig Revel Horwood

"Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn't work when you're a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference."

- Su-chin Pak

"I just try to go out and help others, to do whatever I can to make a difference."

- Dakota Meyer

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

- Knights of Pythagoras

"One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people."

- Dick Gregory

"We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly."

- Luciano de Crescenzo

"“It’s impossible,” said pride.  “It’s risky,” said experience. “It’s pointless,”said reason. “Give it a try,” whispered the heart."

- Talentless67

"Be the person you want your kid to be."

- WilliamFishkins

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"You can make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life."

- Nepeta33

"You made the best decision you could, with the information you had at the time."

- Street_Wash_9128

"Words without actions to back them up mean nothing. Actions without words to back them up stand on their own."

- Old-Man-of-the-Sea

""He who stops being better, stops being good.""

- O.Cromwell

"Being of service to others is what brings true happiness."

- Marie Osmond

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"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

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

- John Holmes

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

- Steve Maraboli

"The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit."

- Charles de Lint

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

- Mandy Hale

"We only have what we give."

- Isabel Allende

"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")"

- William Penn

"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

"Give, but give until it hurts."

- Mother Teresa

"Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters."

- Criss Jami

"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

"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe."

- Andre Agassi

"It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end."

- Johan Cruyff

"Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness."

- Vivek Murthy

"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

"Really good leaders help others become better than they are."

- Tom Izzo

"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."

- Carol Burnett

"Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed."

- Gerald Jampolsky

"My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others."

- Matthew Perry

"When I wake up, I think, 'What can I do to help others?' I think we all owe the world something. That's the way I am when I'm designing a product."

- Joy Mangano

"Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity."

- Ricky Martin

"I think it's important, as a human being, to help others."

- Jason Derulo

"I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can, hopefully, help others achieve goals in their own lives."

- Montel Vontavious Porter

"The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith."

- Joel Osteen

"It reassures me that when we get together as a community, when we put our effort together and our will to help others, we can achieve anything, and that is a lesson for us all."

- Julie Payette

"My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss."

- Marvin Sapp

"Help others reach world-class. And they'll joyfully help you get to your best."

- Robin Sharma

"I've always loved women championing each other and telling their stories to help others who might need that little bit of inspiration, motivation or even reassurance that they are strong enough to be whoever they want to be."

- Leah Williamson

"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

"Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'"

- Ronald Reagan

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

- W. H. Auden

"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

- Les Brown

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

- John Wooden

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"

- Brian Tracy

"A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself."

- Daniel Wallace

""Would you rather be right or effective?""

- CarltheWellEndowed

"Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful."

- A Boogie wit da Hoodie

""Things take the time they take." - Mary Oliver "So it goes" - Kurt Vonnegut"

- LethalBacon

"Pain is temporary; but pride and shame and gratitude and regret last forever."

- Mr-Homemaker

"There is nothing small in the service of God."

- St. Francis de Sales

"Givers need limits because takers don’t have any."

- jwhyem

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

- Maya Angelou

"Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special."

- George R. Bach

"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."

"The serenity prayer grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

"It doesn’t really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you’re becoming."

""That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.""

"We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you."

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

"This too shall pass"

"Love cannot remain by itself — it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service."

"Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve."

"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own."