Giving Help Quotes:

Give, but give until it hurts.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Hurt, Help And Support, Charity And Generosity

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

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

topic: Happiness, Helping Others, Compassion, Joy Of Giving, Giving Help

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

topic: Helping Others, Love Is, Hands, Others Helping You, Charity And Giving

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

source: "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

topic: Graduation, Tree, Shade, Meaning Life, Arbor Day

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Charity, Pity, Charity And Giving, Charity And Love, Patronizing

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Helping Others, Self, Giving, Personal Power, Self Giving

There is no time like the present...

- Georgia Byng

source: Georgia Byng (2009). “Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

topic: Early Bird, Offering Advice, Present Time, Proverbs Wisdom, Giving Help

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

- Edmund Burke

topic: Life, Encouragement, Time, Making A Living, Not Enough Time

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Making A Difference In The World, Source Of Life

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Self Esteem, Helping Others, Numbers, Incrementalism, Others Helping You

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from May 26, 2010

topic: Basketball, Fighting, Helping Others, Making A Difference In The World, Social Service

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Happiness, Happy, Buddhist, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

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

- John Bunyan

topic: Motivational, Success, Perseverance, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Time To Move On, Cycle Of Life

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Yoga, Social Good, Hunger And Poverty

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

- Charles Dickens

source: "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Joy Of Giving, Inspirational Charity

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Success, About Success

No one has ever become poor by giving.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Morning, Kindness, Giving Love, Charitable

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness, Give It All You Got, Giving Love

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Good, Make Me Feel Better

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Source Of Life, Life Is Not Worth Living

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

- Lucy Larcom

source: LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

topic: Inspirational, Adversity, Caring, Making A Difference In The World, Making A Living

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Cancer, Do Not Give Up

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

- Mitch Albom

source: FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Aug 03, 2010

topic: Life, Commitment, Tuesdays With Morrie, Loving Others, Inspirational Charity

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

- Dr. Seuss

source: The Lorax (1971)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fun, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Children

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

- George Eliot

topic: Luxury, Giving, Charity, Philanthropic, Philanthropy Giving

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

- Horace Mann

source: "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

topic: Heart, Helping Others, Self, Inner Life, Undoing

Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

- Warren Farrell

source: Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

topic: Jobs, Men, Giving, Migrant Workers, Giving Help

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

- Rumi

topic: Night, Sea, Rivers, Humbleness, Giving Help

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

- Brené Brown

topic: Heart, Giving, Receiving, Open Heart, Giving Help

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

- Spencer W. Kimball

source: Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

topic: Encouragement, Simple, Giving, Acts Of Service, Giving Help

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.268, Penguin

topic: Keys, Breathing, Giving, Giving Help

But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.

- Vera Farmiga

source: "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". collider.com. July 17, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Two, Asking For Help, Lorraine, Giving Help