Helping Quotes - Page 6

The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.

Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

And they said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear.

You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with ’em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast it only gets an R rating but if God forbid a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

Charity begins at home and usually stays there.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.

When anything gets freed a zest goes round the world.

If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?

Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

In this world we must help one another.

When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!

In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.

I could really use someone else's smile today.

Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer your muscles stronger and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is to lament the loss of that which we possess and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that's selfishness.

The world is full of angels; if you can’t find one, be one.

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.