Helping Hand Quotes

• Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Kindness, Lying, Hands

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Hands, Helping, Persons

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar”, p.28, WaterBrook

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• The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

  Rick Warren

  Servant Of God, People, Community Service

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. March 22, 2005.

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• Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Brother

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama

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• Helping hands are better than Praying Lips

  Mother Teresa

  Hands, Lips, Helping

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• Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

  Norm Rice

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Light

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• There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Dark, Helping Others

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• The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Happiness, Being Happy, Morning

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• Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

  Eric Maisel

  Brother, Life Is Too Short, Helping Others

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.249, Penguin

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• We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Responsibility

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• The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

  Booker T. Washington

  Famous Inspirational, Race, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.158, University of Illinois Press

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• No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

  Meher Baba

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Helping others is like helping yourself.

  Henry Flagler

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Self Help

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• It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Differences

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• There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Caring, Helping Others, People

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• We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

  Amanda Palmer

  Want, Helping, Helping Each Other

  "The art of asking". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

  Laurence Leamer

  Hands, Differences, Making A Difference

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
  For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
  For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
  For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
  For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
  People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• 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

  Inspirational, Thinking, Insperational

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• The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

  Elvis Presley

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

  Song: Into The Ghetto

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• Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

  Sai Baba

  Hands, Purpose, Lips

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