Helping others is an essential virtue. One can always help others before themselves. This list of helping others quotes will motivate and inspire you to live a meaningful life by helping others. Help someone today.

Helping Others Quotes

1. Be someone’s Santa today! – Devang Vibhakar

2. We rise by lifting others. – Robert Ingersoll

3. We only have what we give. – Isabel Allende

4. Give, but give until it hurts. – Mother Teresa

5. God helps humans through humans. – Devang Vibhakar

6. Be the reason someone smiles today. – Anonymous

7. Not for ourselves alone are we born. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. No one has ever become poor by giving. – Anne Frank

9. If you get, give. If you learn, teach. – Maya Angelou

10. Service to humanity is service to God. – Lailah Gifty Akita

11. Use your gits to teach and help others. – Beth

12. A single generosity enlarges the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

13. You don’t need a reason to help people. – Anonymous

14. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

15. Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life. – Todd Stocker

16. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. – Matthew 7:12

17. There is more happiness in giving than in receiving. – Anonymous

18. Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. – Pope Paul VI

19. Never hesitate to help others in their time of need. – Anonymous

20. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln

21. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. – Horace Mann

22. Help and forget, that’s the motto for the true human. – Abhijit Naskar

23. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. – Dr. Loretta Scott

24. People helping people makes this world a better place! – Catherine Pulsifer

25. Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. – Jesse Jackson

26. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop

27. If we always helped one another, no one would need luck. – Sophocles

28. Helping others is a good effort to instill human dignity – Gift Gugu Mona

29. Strong people don’t put others down… They lift them up. – Michael P. Watson

30. Always help someone. You might be the only one that does. – Anonymous

31. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. – Booker T. Washington

32. You don’t have to be an angel, just be someone who can give. – Patti LaBelle

33. Caring for others is the best way to fulfill our own interests. – Auliq-Ice

34. Life’s most urgent questions is: What are you doing for others? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

35. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. – Steve Maraboli

36. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

37. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. – Mohammed Ali

38. If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. – Buddha

39. Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

40. Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have. – Jim Rohn

41. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham

42. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou

43. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

44. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. – Lydia M. Child

45. Do not pass by a man in need. For you may be the hand of God to him. – Proverbs 3:27

46. Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. – James Freeman Clarke

47. Giving freely and giving with a good heart, will never go unrewarded. – James Clear

48. To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success. – Henry Ford

49. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. – Brian Tracy

50. Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets. – Rasheed Ogunlaru

51. Helping others isn’t a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is. – Liya Kebede

52. Make each new day count by helping someone or just making someone smile. – Catherine Pulsifer

53. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi

54. Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

55. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other. – George Eliot

56. Our attitude in giving matters much more to God than the size of our giving. – Oluwakemi Ola-Ojo

57. We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. Every single time you help somebody stand up, you are helping humanity rise. – Steve Maraboli

59. Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. – Marianne Williamson

60. You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential. – Amit Ray

61. Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. – Buddha

62. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

63. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Holmes

64. Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. – Norman B. Rice

65. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. – William Shakespeare

66. Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. – Sally Koch

67. People appreciate and never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough. – Catherine Pulsifer

68. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson

69. Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. – Kahlil Gibran

70. When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. – Edward G. Bulwer

71. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. – Buddha

72. Helping others, without expecting anything in return is what true self-worth is all about. – Gavin Bird

73. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

74. You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. – John Bunyan

75. Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life. – Mollie Marti

76. What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains is immortal. – Albert Pine

77. Being wealthy is about being productive, giving to others, serving society, and creating a legacy. – Joe Mansueto

78. You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life. – Zig Ziglar

79. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. – Mother Teresa

80. There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life. – Mary Rose McGeady

81. To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. – Jane Fonda

82. Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others. – Martin Luther King Jr

83. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama

84. Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. – Eric Maisel

85. Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others. – Danny Thomas

86. Helping others, encouraging others, are often acts of being kind that have more meaning that you may realize. – Catherine Pulsifer

87. Never stop doing little things for others. Sometimes those little things occupy the bigger part of their hearts. – Anonymous

88. Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice. – Byron Garrett

89. In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. – Flora Edwards

90. In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. – Flora Edwards

91. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. – Audrey Hepburn

92. I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it’s received and reciprocated and it grows. That’s the beauty of it. – Hill Harper

93. All you have shall someday be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. – Kahlil Gibran

94. Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond. – Jessy and Bryan Matteo

95. If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. – Warren Buffett

96. Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that. – Tom Krause

97. No matter what your political views are or which side your on, You must be a decent human being, care, help & do good. Period! – George Stamatis

98. Be nice to people… maybe it’ll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others. – Germany Kent

99. If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better. – Will Smith

100. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha