Top 200 Helping Others Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

— Maya Angelou

102. “I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me. That’s where my heart is, that’s all I want to do. Just let me share and give, put a smile on people’s faces and make their hearts feel happy.”

— Michael Jackson

103. “Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.”

— Misha Collins

104. “Help yourself by helping others.”

— John Templeton

105. “Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others... By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

106. “To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.”

— Pope Francis

107. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

108. “In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

— Carl R. Rogers

109. “The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

110. “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.”

— Mother Teresa

111. “Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

112. “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

— Booker T. Washington

113. “Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

114. “In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

115. “If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

116. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.”

— Nhat Hanh

117. “We only have what we give.”

— Isabel Allende

118. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world – above, below, and across – unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.”

— Buddha

119. “Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.”

— Pope Francis

120. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

— Audrey Hepburn

121. “I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other.”

— Fred Hollows

122. “The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

123. “Love everybody, serve everybody.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

124. “To get what you want help others get what they want.”

— Zig Ziglar

125. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

— Bob Marley

126. “Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

127. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

128. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

129. “I’m not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.”

— Abdul Kalam

130. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

131. “Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

132. “What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”

— Aristotle

133. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

134. “The secret to living is giving.”

— Tony Robbins

135. “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

136. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

137. “Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

138. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

139. “When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

— Maya Angelou

140. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”

— John C. Maxwell

141. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

142. “Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.”

— Rick Warren

143. “Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.”

— Brian Tracy

144. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

145. “I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.”

— Les Brown

146. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

147. “We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.”

— Pema Chödrön

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

— Helen Keller

149. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”

— Richard Branson

150. “Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”

— Denzel Washington