100 Inspirational Quotes to Support and Uplift Others

"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

"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

"The more you see, the more you know, the more you feel like you can help others and the more you feel like you can help the team win."

- Rudy Gobert

"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 Estes

"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

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

- Dakota Meyer

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

"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

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

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"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

"I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be."

- SZA

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

- Dalai Lama

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

- Saint Augustine

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- A Boogie wit da Hoodie

"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

"That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them."

- Naomi Klein

"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

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."

- Erykah Badu

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

- Robin S. 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

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

- Richard P. Feynman

"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

"If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so."

- Elizabeth Chambers

"When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too."

- Bernie Siegel

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

- Bella Thorne

"I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others."

- Laurell K. Hamilton

"I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others."

- Peter Singer

"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

"You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others."

- John Travolta

"We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need."

- Virginia Williams

"Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."

- Sai Baba

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- W. H. Auden

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

- Albert Schweitzer

"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

"I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!"

- Gautam Rode

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

- Danny Thomas

"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

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

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

- Knights of Pythagoras

"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

"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

"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

"Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up."

- Michael P. Watson

"I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do."

- Jana Stanfield

"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

"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy."

- Karl Reiland

"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 secod theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King

"The greatest poverty that can afflict the human spirit is the loss of a generous heart. You will know that success has slipped away when your passion for helping others grows cold."

- Bill Lane Doulos

"In proportion as one renders service he becomes great."

- Booker T. Washington

"I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."

- Jonas Salk

"Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy."

- Joseph Jefferson

"You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for which you get not pay but the privilege of doing it."

- Albert Schweitzer

"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 month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

- Chinese Proverb

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

- Edmund Burke

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."

- John Wesley

"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

- Edward Hale

"First, there's the job-where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career--where you trace your progress through various appointments and achievements. Finally, there's the calling-- the ideal blend of activity and character that makes work inseparable from life."

- Robert Bella

"If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others."

- Audrey Hepburn

"It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every person has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Help one another; there's no time like the present and no present like the time."

- James Durst

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."

- Sally Koch

"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

"Past the beggar and the suffering walks he who asks, 'Why, oh God, do you not do something for these people?' To which God replied, 'I did do something, I made you.'"

- Sufi saying

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Dick Gregory

"He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself"

- Goethe

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To serve, not to be served."

- The charge to service for AARP members from Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, AARP founder

"It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in life. When you gave purely, the honor in giving, and that was honor enough."

- Captain Scott O'Grady

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

- Horace Mann

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor is given by what he gave."

- Calvin Coolidge

"If you're watching to learn.... Watch! If you're watching for a break.... Speak up! If you're watching for me to stop.... Leave! If you're here to help.... Grab a shovel!"

- Original Composition

"In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a-faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who is watching and noting it in your book."

- Inspired by Mother Theresa

"I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."

- Lily Tomlin

"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 am a co-creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it."

- Danah Zohar

"Better one friend with a dish of food than a hundred with a sigh."

- Yiddish Proverb

"In order to motivate others, you must first become a source of motivation by yourself. It simply means that if you want to get anything done through others, you must first do it yourself."

- Hazrat Ilyas Attar Qadri

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

- John Bunyan

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

- Mohammed Ali

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

- Dodie Smith

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- George R. Bach

"Everyone can be great because everyone can serve."

"There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up."

"If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent."

"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."

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

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

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

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

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

"The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?"

"The most precious thing I have to give is my time."

"It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

"Think of giving not as a duty, but as a privilege."

"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them away."

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

"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries—not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized."

"Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet!"

"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."

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

"One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing."

"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."

"While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary."

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."

"What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man."

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

"Wealth isn’t always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent, and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed."

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."

"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."

"Put yourself in someone's shoes" is a common phrase. But it is not a common thing that we do everyday. We are, most of the time, self-centred. Especially in this modern, fast-paced life. It is only when we stop for a moment and give our time to others, that we realise the true meaning of empathy."

"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."

"Happiness is thinking of myself; joy is thinking of others."

"Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve."