Helping Others In Need Quotes

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

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

Albert Schweitzer

Helping Others, Volunteer, Needs

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

Charles Dickens

Love, Inspirational, Family

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

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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Sympathy, Helping Others

The Schweitzer Album It is our duty to remember at all times and anew that medicine is not only a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

Philosophical, Catholic, Needs

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Encouragement, Freedom, Business

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

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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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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

"The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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

Gautama Buddha

Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

Love, Positive, Happiness

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

Mother Teresa

Self Esteem, Helping Others, Numbers

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Unknown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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

Muhammad Ali

Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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

William James

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Albert Schweitzer

Appreciation, Responsibility, Helping Others

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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Sophocles

Kindness, Helping Others, Luck

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When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam

Sophie Kinsella

Girl, Helping Others, Race

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Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Ricky Martin

Teacher, Hero, Helping Others

"Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama

Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

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If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Barack Obama

Motivational, Determination, Helping Others

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Saint Augustine

Love, Life, Sympathy

"Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

"Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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