Helping Others Quotes

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.

We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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.

I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.