Top 100 Helping Other Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.
Frank A. Clark
#4. 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
#5. By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
Ha-Joon Chang
#7. I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.
Junot Diaz
#8. It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.
Murray Edelman
#9. Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon
#10. 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
#11. WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.
Howard Hesseman
#12. I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#13. Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
Dalai Lama
#14. My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.
Susane Colasanti
#15. 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
#16. I like helping other writers who don't know what to do or where to go in New York.
Peter Lerangis
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I've learned ... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
Andy Rooney
#20. You've been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping us, finding out what you are, I don't know how you came out on the other side. But it changed you.
Victoria Aveyard
#22. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.
Mark Zuckerberg
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
Norman Vincent Peale
#26. Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
Jenny McCarthy
#27. For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.
Patch Adams
#28. I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
Ariel Pink
#29. I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.
Amy Poehler
#30. What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#31. I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
George Steinbrenner
#32. If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.
Nhat Hanh
#33. The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.
Indra Nooyi
#34. If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.
Gil Scott-Heron
#35. If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
George Lucas
#36. We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.
Luciano De Crescenzo
#37. 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
#38. We'll find a way," I whispered. "I always do."
Danaus leaned forward and brushed a kiss against my temple, sending a wave of peace deep
into the marrow of my bones, helping to ease some of the pain. "And then we'll kill each other as
God intended.
Jocelynn Drake
#39. 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
#40. Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
Dalai Lama
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
Zach Anner
#44. My wife is been extremely supportive and when doubt creeps in, she's there pushing me along. She's helped me move up here, get all of my furniture and brought all my groceries. That's what marriage is about: supporting each other and helping each other reach our fullest potential.
Eddie George
#45. All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
Mark Twain
#46. 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
#47. My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.
Warren Spector
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
John Lasseter
#51. Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.
Itzhak Perlman
#56. 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
#57. I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.
Frank Grillo
#58. Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure.
Rob Liano
#59. There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#60. 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
#61. When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#62. As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.
Thomas Metzinger
#63. A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand.
Marty Natalegawa
#67. God will never help us be anyone other than ourselves.
Joyce Meyer
#68. Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.
Diane Sawyer
#69. We are all one, so let's help each other out.
Reggie Lee
#70. Cape Cod Potato Chips was another beneficiary of the Demoulases' openness to local producers. Like Ken's, it offered a high-quality product but did not have deep enough pockets to break into other chains. Market Basket took Cape Cod early on, helping it grow into a nationally recognized brand.
Daniel Korschun
#71. Authors have to help each other out. It isn't a competition; we're all holding hands to cross the street here.
Marie Krepps
#72. Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#73. Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot
despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists
be both.
Thomas Szasz
#74. God gave you two hands one belongs to you and the other to your fellow man.
Auliq Ice
#75. 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
#76. In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together.
Anita Moorjani
#77. Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.
K.P. Yohannan
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#82. Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#83. Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.
Joey Lawsin
#84. 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
#85. I have a great set of executive producers helping me out. I have a great cast and crew. AMC has been fantastic. I'd say it's everything I was doing before, just eighteen other jobs. I love it.
Scott M. Gimple
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I'm weird. I still believe that when you do good deeds, you get something back in return. That's why I really enjoy helping other guys succeed.
Matt Hardy
#89. One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
Katha Pollitt
#90. Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.
Gloria Feldt
#91. You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet.
Xenophon
#92. 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
#93. The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
Brandy Norwood
#94. That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.
Zac Farro
#95. Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.
Bulent Ecevit
#97. Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.
Farah Diba
#99. 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
#100. Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
Sandra Cisneros
