Top 200 Helping Others Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We rise by lifting others.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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3. “The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”

— Simon Sinek

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4. “Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.”

— Mother Teresa

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5. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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6. “Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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8. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

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9. “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

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10. “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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11. “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

— Fred Rogers

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12. “Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.”

— Teresa of Ávila

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13. “Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”

— Mother Teresa

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14. “Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”

— Mother Teresa

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15. “Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.”

— Princess Diana

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16. “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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17. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

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18. “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

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19. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

— Mother Teresa

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20. “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”

— Mother Teresa

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22. “One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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23. “Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”

— Mother Teresa

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24. “When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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25. “One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.”

— Mother Teresa

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26. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”

— Mother Teresa

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27. “What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.”

— Fred Rogers

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28. “When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.”

— Joel Osteen

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29. “Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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30. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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31. “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

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32. “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 XIV

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33. “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

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34. “They alone live, who live for others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Mother Teresa

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36. “Do small things, with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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37. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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38. “No one has ever become poor by giving.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Dr. Seuss

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40. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”

— Mother Teresa

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41. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa

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42. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

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43. “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

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44. “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”

— Les Brown

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45. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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46. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

— Rumi

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47. “Live for yourself and you will live in vain. Live for others and you will live again.”

— Bob Marley

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48. “As nurses, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul, and body of our patients, their families, and ourselves. They may not remember our names but they will never forget the way we made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

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49. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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50. “The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

— Muhammad Ali

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