Top 100 Helping Other People Quotes
#1. You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
Herb Kelleher
#2. Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#3. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.
Dan Pallotta
#4. I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
Eva LaRue
#5. If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
Ellen DeGeneres
#6. Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#7. I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
Marian Wright Edelman
#8. Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them ... everyone deserves a chance ... you can never let yourself be a victim.
Jack Welch
#9. I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.
Shane Carruth
#10. You can only have fun helping other people have fun if you're having fun doing it.
Bernie De Koven
#11. The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.
Troy Polamalu
#13. Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.
Alan Cohen
#14. And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
Joan Bauer
#15. Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
Henry Louis Gates
#16. A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.
Bobby Lee
#18. If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
Jack Welch
#19. I don't know about you,
but for me ... to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people.
Toba Beta
#20. Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well.
Marinela Reka
#21. You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.
Spencer Johnson
#22. Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
Shelley Duvall
#23. What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.
Fred Rogers
#24. I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
Benjamin Carson
#25. Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant
#26. 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
#27. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'
Seungsahn
#28. My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma
#29. I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
Camryn Manheim
#30. There's something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.
T.D. Jakes
#31. Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
Annie Lennox
#32. There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#33. People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.
Frank A. Clark
#34. I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.
Junot Diaz
#35. We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
Deval Patrick
#36. WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.
Howard Hesseman
#37. A
lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I
believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.
Walter Breuning
#38. 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
#39. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.
Mark Zuckerberg
#40. We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.
Eric Weiner
#41. The high that I got from helping people and being around the love was better than any other high I've gotten from any drug
Demi Lovato
#42. Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
Norman Vincent Peale
#43. If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.
Nhat Hanh
#44. If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
George Lucas
#45. I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
Alex Gaskarth
#46. Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.
Richard Branson
#47. People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.
Catherine Hardwicke
#48. I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.
George Lucas
#49. I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
Zach Anner
#50. I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.
Stephanie Davis
#51. I've learned ... that sometimes coming public with certain things, it inspires other people. And sometimes I want to keep things private ... but then I found out that it helps other families ...
Bubba Watson
#52. People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
Anne Lamott
#53. Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all they can be, I think that's so much more important than one person's glory.
Felicia Day
#54. You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.
George Lucas
#55. I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.
Frank Grillo
#56. Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure.
Rob Liano
#57. When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#58. I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.
Daphne Oz
#59. Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.
Diane Sawyer
#60. God gave you two hands one belongs to you and the other to your fellow man.
Auliq Ice
#61. The more people know, the more people share. The more people improve the quality of their lives, the more they'll talk to other people about it, and then they'll help each other.
Louise Hay
#62. I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
Miep Gies
#63. I must say that the more you give, the more you get. Being able to find solutions, to help other people is extremely gratifying.
Donna Karan
#64. Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee ...
Eric Clapton
#65. I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.
Jeanine Tesori
#66. That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.
Zac Farro
#68. We come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
Pema Chodron
#69. I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.
Beth Orton
#70. The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.
Oliver Kahn
#71. There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#72. I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.
Carlos Delgado
#73. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
Penn Jillette
#74. It's true that we can't help the circumstances we're born into and some of us start out in a much tougher place than other people. But just because we started there doesn't mean we have to end there.
Michael Oher
#75. We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
Dalai Lama
#76. No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.
Pattie Mallette
#77. Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.
Antoine Fuqua
#78. You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John Ruskin
#79. I have manifested everything I want in the way of physical things. I have a beautiful family and enough abundance to take care of them. I put my attention on manifesting for other people, helping those who are less fortunate.
Wayne Dyer
#80. But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it's not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.
Will Schwalbe
#81. Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.
Michael Franti
#82. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#83. What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
Criss Jami
#84. The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
May Sarton
#85. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.
Beck
#86. Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.
Tom Krause
#87. I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
Rachel Platten
#88. A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
Daniel Wallace
#89. It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.
Mattie Stepanek
#90. When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.
Gretchen Rubin
#91. The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.
Zig Ziglar
#92. I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
Charles Barkley
#94. It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.
Lily Yeh
#95. I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
Pink
#96. I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.
Larry Wall
#97. Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
Elizabeth Berkley
#98. There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.
Neil Young
#99. People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
Daisaku Ikeda
#100. I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.
Demetri Martin
