Quotes on helping
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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Dr. Seuss Quotes
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
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Mother Teresa Quotes
The first question which the priest and the Levite askedwas: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
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Martin Luther King Quotes
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
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Robert F. Kennedy Quotes
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Nelson Henderson Quotes
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
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Christopher Morley Quotes
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
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Gene Mauch Quotes
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
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Seth Parker Quotes
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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John Wooden Quotes
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
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Edward Everett Hale Quotes
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
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Sydney Smith Quotes
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
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Nelson DeMille Quotes
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
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Catherine Hall Quotes
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
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Hannah Moore Quotes
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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Betty Reese Quotes
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
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Tom Brokaw Quotes
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Edith Wharton Quotes
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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William Penn Quotes
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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Mother Teresa Quotes
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
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Frank A. Clark Quotes
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
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Gene Tunney Quotes
Improvement begins with I.
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Arnold Glasow Quotes
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
My life is my message.
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Mahatma Ghandi Quotes
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
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Leo Rosten Quotes
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
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Tracy Chapman Quotes
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes
No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.
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Knights of Pythagoras Quotes
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Albert Pike Quotes
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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William James Quotes
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
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George Eliot Quotes
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
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Nicholas Berdyaev Quotes
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Horace Mann Quotes
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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Helen Keller Quotes
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
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Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
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Mother Teresa Quotes
The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
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Karl Reiland Quotes
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Lowell Quotes
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.
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Buddha Quotes
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
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Daniel Berrigan Quotes
The deed is everything, the glory naught.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
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Jan de Hartog Quotes
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
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Laurence Leamer Quotes
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
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Fiona MacLeod Quotes
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
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Arabian Proverb Quotes
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes