50 Inspirational Quotes on Helping Others to Brighten Your Day

"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

"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

"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 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

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

- Les Brown

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Kyle Carpenter

"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

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

- Gautam Rode

"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

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

- Karen Civil

"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

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"No one has ever become poor from giving."

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Knights of Pythagoras

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

- Maya Angelou

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."

- Mother Teresa

"Giving does not only precede receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"It’s easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime."

- Mother Teresa

"Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give."

- Ben Carson

"Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love, or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give."

- Mother Teresa

"Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare."

- Mike McIntyre

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

- Mother Teresa

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Mohammed Ali

"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

"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

"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 not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better."

- Will Smith

"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

"Love in action is service to the world."

- Lynne Namka

"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

"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

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

- Ashleigh Brilliant

"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

"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

"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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

"To serve, not to be served."

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

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

- Lily Tomlin

"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

"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

"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

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

- Edmund Burke

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

- Jonas Salk

"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

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

- Horace Mann

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

"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

"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

"[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

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

- A Boogie wit da Hoodie

"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

"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

"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

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

- John Bunyan

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

- Dodie Smith

"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

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

- Aesop

"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

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Someone asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), "What is the first sign you look for, to tell you of an ancient civilization?" The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, a "healed femur". When someone breaks a femur, they can't survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving themselves. Isn't that what we in philanthropy are all about? Healing femurs of one sort or another?"

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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