1,743 Quotes About Helping

There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.

You become rich by helping the poor; you become rich also by helping the rich! Helping makes you rich!

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

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.

Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.