Helping Quotes

“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.”
― Fred Rogers

“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.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it.”
― Edith Warton 18621937

“Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.”
― Robert Schuller

“The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“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.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Charles is going to be fine," said Annie.
"Yep," said Jack with a smile. "He never even knew that it was us who helped him."
"That's the best way to help someone, I think," said Annie.
"Why?" asked Jack.
"Then you know you're not helping them just to get a lot of credit," said Annie. "You're helping because it's the right thing to do.”
― Mary Pope Osborne, A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time

“Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

“The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.”
― Kat Von D, Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing

“When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.”
― Ace Antonio Hall

“Still, I couldn't get over Dad calling those farmers. People might think helping is hard, but really that's the easy part; just look how good it makes people feel. Look how happy all those Red Bend ladies were about chipping in. It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real strength, to say you're not strong enough to do it alone. Mom must really be hurting for Dad to be so brave.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.”
― Don Polson

“A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same”
― Nonnie Jules

“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“It seems that many of us have the goal of making other people conform to our desires and expectations, whether or not we would admit to such a thing. We see this especially in parents who get upset because their children don’t conform to their expectations, but instead follow a pattern of development that is unique and individual. We often use language with peers and colleagues that encourages them to change their ways of doing things to our ways of doing things: “You should” and “You ought to” are usually presented as advice, but in the end they really are about changing someone else’s ways of doing things. And we may offer this “advice” in a spirit of love and helpfulness, but we can be much more helpful when we help them to find their own ways of changing things.

It can be incredibly freeing to spend an entire day not looking to try to change the behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of other human beings. If we approach life in this way, we may learn much about the other people in our lives instead of trying to make them be like us.”
― Tom Walsh, Just for Today, The Expanded Edition

“I thought... I thought you might..."
"Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <…> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed.”
― Tad Williams, Shadowplay

“It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.”
― Pete Sanders, First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

“Look at it this way—before any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was in pieces—just pieces of wood. But the wood was full of potential. It could be shaped into anything that a carpenter wanted it to be shaped into, turning it into a beautiful finished product. Now, not all carpenters are equal in skill—you know that. If a piece of wood is shaped by a poor carpenter, the finished product will be lacking somehow, in some way.

"But if that wood is shaped by a master carpenter, then that piece will fit into this world precisely as it’s supposed to fit, whether it be a desktop or a cabinet shelf or a doorstop. And the way that I work wood is the way I try to work with people—with love and attention and caring—so that the wood and the people can reach their potential. And if someone lets you teach them, and is open to what you have to teach, then how can you go wrong?”
― Tom Walsh