93 Inspiring Quotes On Helping Others

In a world where fast-paced lifestyles often dominate our days, the simple act of helping others can serve as a refreshing reminder of our shared humanity. Whether it's offering a kind word to a stranger, volunteering time for a cause, or simply listening to someone in need, helping others not only transforms lives but also enriches our own. Our collection of top 93 inspiring quotes on helping others is here to reignite your sense of purpose, showing how acts of kindness and generosity can create ripples of positivity. These quotes serve as a testament to the power of compassion and remind us that, regardless of our differences, we all hold the ability to make a meaningful impact. Join us as we explore the wisdom of thinkers, leaders, and everyday altruists who have found profound value in selfless acts, offering encouragement and motivation to carry these ideals into our daily lives.

1. “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?” - Martin Luther King Jr.

2. “There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

3. “For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands” - Christina Rossetti

4. “I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.” - Ben Stein

5. “God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” - Anonymous

6. “Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.” - Walt Whitman

7. “Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.” - Vera Nazarian

8. “Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.” - Charles Dickens

9. “Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)” - kate dicamillo

10. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” - Tony DeLiso

11. “HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-No.No.It’s empty.Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don’t see nor hear a soul.I spin around again.“HELP!” I cry.But there’s no one.Haven’s completely empty.There ain’t hope here after all.” - Patrick Ness

12. “You are never strong enough that you don't need help.” - Cesar Chavez

13. “Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.” - Jodi Picoult

14. “He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.” - Dante Alighieri

15. “When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.” - Julia Cameron

16. “Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!” - Steve Maraboli

17. “When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.” - Steve Maraboli

18. “It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.” - William Faulkner

19. “Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow."You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich."You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?""Even now," the woman says firmly.” - Margaret Peterson Haddix

20. “Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

21. “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.” - Dalai Lama XIV

22. “Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.” - Tamora Pierce

23. “Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.” - Vera Nazarian

24. “You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help you through when you’ve done all you can do.If you can’t cope, I will dry your eyesI will fight your fight, I will hold you tight and I wont let go” - Rascal Flatts

25. “I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.” - Aimee Bender

26. “When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.” - Toba Beta

27. “English : Don't pity if you don't help!Indonesia: Usah kasihan jika tak bantu!” - Toba Beta

28. “Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate” - Adriana Trigiani

29. “Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.” - Alistair Begg

30. “[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.” - Blake Charlton

31. “In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.(The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)” - Anonymous

32. “God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.” - Joshilyn Jackson

33. “If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya” - George R.R. Martin

34. “Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.” - Dallin H. Oaks

35. “Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.” - Patricia C. Wrede

36. “Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.” - Marcus Aurelius

37. “Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.” - Roman Payne

38. “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” - P.J. O'Rourke

39. “You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!” - Gregory Maguire

40. “Cries for help are frequently inaudible.” - Tom Robbins

41. “Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” - Brené Brown

42. “One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.” - Mike Norton

43. “When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.” - Lori Goodwin

44. “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.” - Criss Jami

45. “Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.” - Kathy Magliato

46. “That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?” - Dawn French

47. “Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.” - Sahana Epari

48. “...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.” - Elisabeth Elliot

49. “Life’s gonna kick you in the butt; that’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)” - Richelle E. Goodrich

50. “I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own.I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?” - Rachel Lloyd

51. “Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

52. “Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates” - Bilal Bashir Magry

53. “You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of.” - Cory Doctorow

54. “This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.” - Brock Clarke

55. “Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.” - Randy Alcorn

56. “Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength.“I’m so glad you’re here,” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fineif you’re here.”I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore.” - James Patterson

57. “A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.” - Toni Sorenson

58. “I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.” - Richard Paul Evans

59. “Prayer:  The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

60. “Do not be ashamed of help.” - Marcus Aurelius

61. “I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?” - Shannon A Thompson

62. “We have been together for 40 years, married for 36. There have been three times in our relationship when we were unable to resolve an issue on our own. We used all the skill that we have and yet it was still unresolved. In those three times we sought professional help because there was a blind spot for each of us. The therapist was able to listen to both of us and help us come to a place of resolution that we both felt good about. I feel very grateful for that help. Most times we have been able to work things through on our own. Sometimes we can clear the issue in a matter of a few minutes, sometimes an hour and sometimes it can take several days. But we still keep working on it until we both say that we feel complete, we understand our own part and responsibility in the issue rather than simply blaming each other, are willing to go on, and there is an even deeper connection and sometimes even humor to the situation. In working each issue through to completion we have been able to retain a beautiful lightness in our relationship that we both cherish.” - Joyce Vissell

63. “I looked at all the caged animals. . . . . . . the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and betrayal. And I was angry."God," I said, "this is terrible! Why don't you do something?"God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly."I have done something. . .I created you.” - Jim Willis

64. “Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.” - Todd Stocker

65. “You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.” - Jessica Sorensen

66. “No one has capacity to help for ever except God .” - wordfaith3

67. “I spend a lot of time looking up.” - Erica Goros

68. “Unfortunately we do treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves first and the rest will come naturally, like an 18-kt. Golden Rule.” ― Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain” - Erica Goros

69. “Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.” - Marcia Vaughan

70. “Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

71. “One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both.” - Brené Brown

72. “I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.” - Samuel Beckett

73. “Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.” - Juliet Marillier

74. “Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.” - Mark Allen Smith

75. “You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.” - Criss Jami

76. “Money can't buy love, but money can reprove one's care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.” - Anthony Liccione

77. “Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” - John Wesley

78. “I respect people who have such passion. Emile was saying. "I don't. I have a lot of interests, some I'm passionate about, but not to the exclusion of everything else. I sometimes wonder if that's necessary for geniuses to accomplish what they must, a singularity of purpose. We mere mortals just get in the way. Relationships are messy, distracting.He travels the fastest who travels alone, quoted Gamache.You sound as though you don't believe it.It depends where you're going, but no, I don't. I think you might go far fast, but eventually you'll stall. We need other people....We all need help.” - Louise Penny

79. “I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

80. “Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.” - Anne Lamott

81. “The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.” - Demi Lovato

82. “It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

83. “There are two sacred causes in this world,” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.” - Rachel Hartman

84. “Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others...” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

85. “We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good.""The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.” - Bill Willingham

86. “I am closed off into myself and no one but me can ever help me get out.” - Alice Kohler

87. “Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!” - Will Schwalbe

88. “Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

89. “I could help you,” I said. “Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.” - Janet Evanovich

90. “The children will come to no harm.""Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there.""Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice, you must take me farther on. I have a job to do.""Seems to me—" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.” - Philip Pullman

91. “Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal youth, I sleep walk through life.Someone... wake me up.Please.Wake me up.” - Samantha Young

92. “When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.” - Bryant McGill

93. “Heroes make us smile because they not only rescue us outwardly, but inwardly too.” - Richelle E. Goodrich