Helpfulness
- After the verb "to love" – "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.--Bertha von Suttner
- And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.--Larry Winget (Success One Day At A Time)
- The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.--Seneca
- By receiving from others, by letting them help you, you really aid them to become bigger, more generous, more magnanimous. You do them a service...--Henry Miller (Letter to Anais Nin)
- Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.--John Wesley
- Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.--G. K. Chesterton
- Empowerment gives birth to responsibility; this responsibility is to serve. We need to serve where we find ourselves; wherever we are. You don't need to identify with service, or speak of it. Better just to guide, love and care. Silence is a great aid in service; the more you are able to listen, the greater help you can be--energy escapes when you talk. And when you have achieved serenity, you will benefit others by your presence. When your inner noise is silenced, you will have a quick, clear perspective on all human situations; you will be able to reach out effectively in generosity and compassion.--Andrew DaPassano
- Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.--Pearl Bailey
- Finding your calling in life ultimately comes down to finding the answer to the question: "How can I help?"--Fr. Roderick Vonhogen (Geekpriest: Confessions of a New Media Pioneer)
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.--Lao-Tzu
- Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.--Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Give of your hands to serve and your hearts to love.--Mother Teresa
- Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.--Dolores Huerta
- God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.--Abraham Joshua Heschel
- A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.--Jim Rohn
- Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.--Sally Koch
- The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.--C.C. Colton
- He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.--Abraham Lincoln
- He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.--Samuel Johnson
- "Help" is a prayer that is always answered.--Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)
- The higher one’s level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.--Les Parrott (25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks)
- I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.--Mother Teresa
- I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.--Albert Schweitzer
- I like the idea of helping people help people.--Bryan Adams
- I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.--Margaret Mead (Redbook Nov. 1978)
- I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.--Rabindranath Tagore
- I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.--Booker T. Washington
- If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.--Emily Dickinson
- If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.--Winston Churchill
- If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.--Myrtle Reed (A Weaver of Dreams)
- If you hear that a sick man is in need of hot soup, I counsel you to wake up from your ectasy and warm the soup for him. Leave God to serve God…--John Ruysbroeck
- If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.--Chinese proverb
- In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.--Karl Reiland
- In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.--Flora Edwards
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.--Albert Schweitzer
- It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is true that if we look after others, God will look after us--and do a lot better job of it than we can.--Arthur E. Yensen
- It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.--Arthur (Bugs) Baer
- Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.--Sathya Sai Baba
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.--Brian Tracy
- The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.--Dalai Lama
- Most Christians, though, have never sought to agree on everything before seeking to be of common service to the world. There’s no requirement for doctrinal unity before wounds are soothed, brows are mopped or rooms are swept. Working with a common purpose is a symbol of unity in itself.--Graham James ("Thought for the Day," Oct. 5, 2016)
- The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.--Peace Pilgrim
- Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.--Jesse Jackson
- Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.--Elizabeth Fuller
- No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself.--Seneca
- No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.--Charles Dickens
- Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.--Marianne Williamson
- One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.--Dick Gregory
- The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.--Mae Maloo
- The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service.--Jonathan Tisch
- The only way to mitigate sadness is to help in some way.--Marsha Arons
- People never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough.--Catherine Pulsifer
- Power is the ability to do good things for others.--Brooke Astor
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.--Mahatma K. Gandhi (Experiments)
- Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.--Leo Baeck
- The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.--Wilfred Grenfell
- Small service is true service. ... The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.--William Wordsworth
- SOME DAYS... we are neither called to give a man a fish OR to teach him to fish but just to wrap him in salve and bind up his wounds! There are too few Good Samaritans!--Kimberly Osment (on Facebook, 2/6/12)
- Sow good services; sweet remenbrances will grow from them.--Mme. De Stael
- [The] spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.--Theodore Roosevelt ("Christian Citizenship" The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses)
- Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"--Brian Tracy
- The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.--Robert Green Ingersoll
- Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.--Whitney M. Young
- There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.-–Henry Van Dyke
- There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.--Nikki Giovanni
- There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.--Booker T. Washington
- There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.--George Matthew Adams
- They might not need me, but they might.
I’ll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.--Emily Dickinson
- 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.--William Shakespeare
- To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of humankind--this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.--Henry Van Dyke
- To lend each other a hand when we're falling ... perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.--Frederick Buechner (Brendan)
- Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.--Emanuel Swedenborg
- Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.--George Bush
- We are here to help one another along life’s journey.--William J. Bennett
- We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.--Henry David Thoreau
- We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.--Dr. Loretta Scott
- We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 18, 2003)
- We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.--Desire-Joseph Mercier
- What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?--George Eliot
- What drive[s] me arises from a different kind of aspiration: the desire to do for others, to help make things right for them.--Sonia Sotomayor
- 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."--Fred Rogers
- When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.--Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
- The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"--William Arthur Ward
- You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.--Dalai Lama (on Twitter 1/17/14)
- You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.--Kahlil Gibran
- You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.-–John Bunyan
- You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.--Jim Stovall (Success Secrets of Super Achievers)
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