Helping Someone Quotes

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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  We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  John Bunyan

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Helping, Sometimes, Persons

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• The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Tired, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiring, Tired, Helping Others

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• I’ve always tried to be independent. It’s just my personality. I’ve always been the type to motivate the camp. I’ve always wanted to be the fuel for something—for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I’m doing.

  Rita Ora

  Independent, Personality, My Best Friend

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• I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

  Cammie McGovern

  Might, Take Me, My Own

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• Helping someone is what life is all about.

  Willie Stargell

  Life, Inspire, Helping

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• It’s interesting how God arranges your schedule. When you’re helping someone else, you never run out of time, when you’re just interested in helping yourself, time is real short.

  Cathy Hughes

  Running, Real, Interesting

  "Sophisticated Sunday: Jewels from Cathy Hughes, Founder of Radio One and TV One". Interview with Natasha T. Brown, onstage-dc.com. August 4, 2013.

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• Nobody looks better than when they are helping someone else.

  Kevin Kling

  Looks, Helping

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• I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

  George Steinbrenner

  Thinking, Forever, Done

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• You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Goodbye, Love You, Self

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.

  Chris Hadfield

  Helping Others, Feet, Stressful Situations

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• It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.

  Natalie Grant

  Song, Nice, Leaving

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• I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

  David Schwimmer

  Stories, Sometimes, Storyteller

  Source: collider.com

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• Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

  Erykah Badu

  Opposites, Play, Leaving

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

  Landon Donovan

  Pride, Focus, Pleasure

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• There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• 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

  Thanksgiving, Running, Selfish

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• Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual partnership with that seeker. It's an exercise of compassion.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Spiritual, Exercise, Compassion

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (1993). “The Peaceable Classroom”, Boynton/Cook

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• The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Simple, Self, Desire

  Kevin Eikenberry (2005). “Vantage Points on Learning and Life”, p.11, Dog Ear Publishing

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