Top 200 Helping Others Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.”

— Gloria Steinem

152. “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.”

— Swami Vivekananda

153. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

154. “When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

155. “If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

156. “One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.”

— Jim Rohn

157. “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

— Hippocrates

158. “Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.”

— Plato

159. “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Richard Branson

161. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa

162. “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.”

— Confucius

163. “Helping others is the way we help ourselves.”

— Oprah Winfrey

164. “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”

— Buddha

165. “The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”

— Adam Grant

166. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa

167. “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”

— Ronald Reagan

168. “Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

169. “A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

170. “There is no time like the present...”

— Georgia Byng

171. “The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

172. “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

— Roald Dahl

173. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

— Lao Tzu

174. “When you wish good for others, good things come back to you. This is the law of nature.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

175. “When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

176. “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

— Karl A. Menninger

177. “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”

— Leo Tolstoy

178. “Through my obedience to God, He has been able to use my life to help others. It’s been a great journey and I’m looking forward to all the things God has in the future.”

— Joyce Meyer

179. “It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”

— Honoré de Balzac

180. “Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”

— Elie Wiesel

181. “Helping hands are better than Praying Lips.”

— Mother Teresa

182. “If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

— Warren Buffett

183. “When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others – think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

184. “There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.”

— Demi Lovato

185. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

186. “We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.”

— W.H. Auden

187. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

— Horace Mann

188. “Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.”

— C. S. Lewis

189. “Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”

— Hippocrates

190. “Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.”

— Sherry Anderson

191. “Love each other or perish.”

— W.H. Auden

192. “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Anne Frank

194. “Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.”

— Jim Rohn

195. “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

196. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their growth.”

— John Whitmore

197. “The simple act of caring is heroic.”

— Edward Albert

198. “Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.”

— Dale Carnegie

199. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

200. “Service to others leads to greatness.”

— Jim Rohn